Fellow

Quick meaning: Fellow is a noun meaning A person or thing comparable in characteristics with another person or thing; especially, as belonging to the same class or group.

Meaning

A person or thing comparable in characteristics with another person or thing; especially, as belonging to the same class or group.

More Meanings

1. Often in the form Fellow: academic senses.
2. Usually qualified by an adjective or used in the plural: an individual or person regardless of gender.
3. (also attributively) A person or thing comparable in characteristics with another person or thing; especially, as belonging to the same class or group.
4. (informal) A male person; a bloke, a chap, a guy, a man; also, preceded by a modifying word, sometimes with a sense of mild reproach: used as a familiar term of address to a man.
5. (chiefly in the plural, also figuratively) A companion; a comrade.
6. (chiefly in the plural) An animal which is a member of a breed or species, or a flock, herd, etc.
7. (chiefly in the plural) An object which is associated with another object; especially, as part of a set.

Example Sentences

[W]e are Fellovves ſtill, / Seruing alike in ſorrovv: […]

One rioter was seized, and ordered by the privy council to be whipped. His fellows rescued him and beat the hangman.

[T]he Natives quarrelling vvith their Men, upon ſome Rudeneſs offer'd to their VVomen; and they being ſeparated from their Fellovvs, vvere oblig'd to fly, […]

But now vnderſtand you, that the kingdome of God is communicated vntoo you by our Lord Jeſus Chriſt, bycauſe he hath purchaced it for you, and made you his brethren and fellowes.

Word Forms

• fellows
• fellowing
• fellowed

Synonyms for fellow

Depending on context, synonyms include adjunct, associate, cohort, collaborator, colleague, compeer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include comrade, companion, fella, gent, confrere, swain.

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