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fellow
[ fel-oh ]
noun
- a man or boy:
a fine old fellow; a nice little fellow.
- Informal. beau; suitor:
Mary had her fellow over to meet her folks.
- Informal. person; one:
They don't treat a fellow very well here.
- a person of small worth or no esteem.
- a companion; comrade; associate:
They have been fellows since childhood.
- a person belonging to the same rank or class; equal; peer:
The doctor conferred with his fellows.
- one of a pair; mate; match:
a shoe without its fellow.
- Education.
- a graduate student of a university or college to whom an allowance is granted for special study.
- British. an incorporated member of a college, entitled to certain privileges.
- a member of the corporation or board of trustees of certain universities or colleges.
- a member of any of certain learned societies:
a fellow of the British Academy.
- Obsolete. a partner.
verb (used with object)
- to make or represent as equal with another.
- Archaic. to produce a fellow to; match.
adjective
- belonging to the same class or group; united by the same occupation, interests, etc.; being in the same condition:
fellow students; fellow sufferers.
Fellow
1/ ˈɛəʊ /
noun
- a member of any of various learned societies
Fellow of the British Academy
fellow
2/ ˈɛəʊ /
noun
- a man or boy
- an informal word for boyfriend
- informal.one or oneself
a fellow has to eat
- a person considered to be of little importance or worth
- often plural a companion; comrade; associate
- ( as modifier )
fellow travellers
- (at Oxford and Cambridge universities) a member of the governing body of a college, who is usually a member of the teaching staff
- a member of the governing body or established teaching staff at any of various universities or colleges
- a postgraduate student employed, esp for a fixed period, to undertake research and, often, to do some teaching
- a person in the same group, class, or condition
the surgeon asked his fellows
- ( as modifier )
a fellow sufferer
fellow students
- one of a pair; counterpart; mate
looking for the glove's fellow
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of fellow1
Idioms and Phrases
see regular guy (fellow) ; strange bedfellows .Example Sentences
Notwithstanding Republicans’ protestations of reverence for Medicaid, the truth is that they and their fellow conservatives have had their knives out for the program virtually since its inception in 1965.
Michael Sozan, a senior fellow at the liberal Center for American Progress, recently co-authored a lengthy report accusing Trump of “smashing constitutional and legal guardrails to build an authoritarian presidency.”
Last April, during an interview, external for her upcoming film The Idea of You she is seen alongside co-star and fellow Arsenal fan Nicholas Galitzine watching and celebrating a goal.
Sade reveals the utopia she and her girlfriend, along with other fellow inmates, have been imagining, a collective portrait of a peaceful haven for “free formerly incarcerated Black girls.”
“He’s making these very powerful companies jump,” said Gigi Sohn, a former FCC lawyer and senior fellow at the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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