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Fellow   /fˈɛloʊ/   Listen
noun
Fellow  n.  
1.
A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer. "The fellows of his crime." "We are fellows still, Serving alike in sorrow." "That enormous engine was flanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude." Note: Commonly used of men, but sometimes of women.
2.
A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man. "Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow."
3.
An equal in power, rank, character, etc. "It is impossible that ever Rome Should breed thy fellow."
4.
One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate; the male. "When they be but heifers of one year,... they are let go to the fellow and breed." "This was my glove; here is the fellow of it."
5.
A person; an individual. "She seemed to be a good sort of fellow."
6.
In the English universities, a scholar who is appointed to a foundation called a fellowship, which gives a title to certain perquisites and privileges.
7.
In an American college or university, a member of the corporation which manages its business interests; also, a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the foundation.
8.
A member of a literary or scientific society; as, a Fellow of the Royal Society. Note: Fellow is often used in compound words, or adjectively, signifying associate, companion, or sometimes equal. Usually, such compounds or phrases are self-explanatory; as, fellow-citizen, or fellow citizen; fellow-student, or fellow student; fellow-workman, or fellow workman; fellow-mortal, or fellow mortal; fellow-sufferer; bedfellow; playfellow; workfellow. "Were the great duke himself here, and would lift up My head to fellow pomp amongst his nobles."



verb
Fellow  v. t.  To suit with; to pair with; to match. (Obs.)






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"Fellow" Quotes from Famous Books



... old fellow had fallen as if struck by apoplexy. Next, he understood that she was not dead, but she might be. At last, he had put on his blouse, taken his hat, fastened his spurs to his boots, and set out at full speed; and the whole of the way old Rouault, panting, was torn by anguish. Once ...
— Madame Bovary • Gustave Flaubert

... universal divine love revealed in the heart of Jesus, he had his personal human friendships. A philanthropist may give his whole life to the good of his fellow-men, to their uplifting, their advancement, their education; to the liberation of the enslaved; to work among and in behalf of the poor, the sick, or the fallen. All suffering humanity has its interest for him, and makes appeal to his compassion. Yet amid the world of those whom ...
— Personal Friendships of Jesus • J. R. Miller

... enjoyment of that luxury, "A Taste of Austrian Jails," already related in these pages, I met with a man whose whole life would seem to signify perversion; a "dirty, villanous-looking fellow, with but one eye, and very little light in that." A first glance at this fellow would call up the reflection, "Here is the result of bad education, and bad example, induced perhaps by natural misfortunes, but the inevitable growth of filth and ...
— A Tramp's Wallet - stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France • William Duthie

... of the war, she had married a young soldier, the son of family friends, like-minded with her own people, a modest, inarticulate fellow, who had been killed at Festubert. She had loved him—oh, yes, she had loved him. But sometimes, looking back, she was troubled to feel how shadowy he had become to her. Not in the region of emotion. She had pined for his fondness all these years; she pined for it ...
— Helena • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... "This fellow has something in him after all," was the involuntary reflection that rose to the other's mind. The effect was, however, not very beneficial to his own manner. Instead of having the effect of impressing upon Stevens the necessity of working ...
— Charlemont • W. Gilmore Simms


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