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fellow definition

fel·low (felō, felə)

noun

  1. Obsolete a person who shares; partner or accomplice
  2. a companion; associate
  3. a person of the same class or rank; equal; peer
  4. either of a pair of corresponding things; mate
  5. a graduate student who holds a fellowship in a university or college
  6. a member of a learned society
  7. at some British and U.S. universities,
    1. a faculty member who is a member of the governing body
    2. a scholar, journalist, etc. who is appointed on a fellowship for a given period of research, teaching, or both
  8. Obsolete
    1. a person of a lower social class
    2. a coarse, rough man
  9. Informal
    1. a man or boy: often in familiar address
    2. a person; one a fellow must eat
  10. Informal a suitor; beau

Etymology: ME felaghe < Late OE feolaga, partner < feoh (see fee) + laga, a laying down (see law), after ON félagi: basic sense, “one laying down wealth for a joint undertaking”; fellowsenses , , , after L socius: see associate

adjective

  1. having the same ideas, position, work, etc.
  2. in the same condition; associated fellow workers

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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