Fellow

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: Fel=low

CIDE DICTIONARY

Fellow, n. [OE. felawe, felaghe, Icel. fēlagi, fr. fēlag companionship, prop., a laying together of property; fē property + lag a laying, pl. lög law, akin to liggja to lie. See Fee, and Law, Lie to be low.].

•  A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer.  [1913 Webster]

  " Commonly used of men, but sometimes of women."  Judges xi. 37.  [1913 Webster]

  "The fellows of his crime."  [1913 Webster]

  "We are fellows still,
  Serving alike in sorrow."  [1913 Webster]

  "That enormous engine was flanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude."  [1913 Webster]
•  A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man.  [1913 Webster]

  "Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow."  [1913 Webster]
•  An equal in power, rank, character, etc.  [1913 Webster]

  "It is impossible that ever Rome
  Should breed thy fellow."  [1913 Webster]
•  One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate; the male.  [1913 Webster]

  "When they be but heifers of one year, . . . they are let go to the fellow and breed."  [1913 Webster]

  "This was my glove; here is the fellow of it."  [1913 Webster]
•  A person; an individual.  [1913 Webster]

  "She seemed to be a good sort of fellow."  [1913 Webster]
•  In the English universities, a scholar who is appointed to a foundation called a fellowship, which gives a title to certain perquisites and privileges.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  A member of a literary or scientific society; as, a Fellow of the Royal Society.  [1913 Webster]

  " 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."  [1913 Webster]

  "Were the great duke himself here, and would lift up
  My head to fellow pomp amongst his nobles."  [1913 Webster]

Fellow, v. t. 

 To suit with; to pair with; to match.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Fellow, n.
1 colloq. a man or boy (poor fellow!; my dear fellow).
2 derog. a person regarded with contempt.
3 (usu. in pl.) a person associated with another; a comrade (were separated from their fellows).
4 a counterpart or match; the other of a pair.
5 an equal; one of the same class.
6 a contemporary.
7 a an incorporated senior member of a college. b an elected graduate receiving a stipend for a period of research. c a member of the governing body in some universities.
8 a member of a learned society.
9 (attrib.) belonging to the same class or activity (fellow soldier; fellow-countryman).

Idiom

fellow-feeling sympathy from common experience. fellow-traveller
1 a person who travels with another.
2 a sympathizer with, or a secret member of, the Communist Party.

Etymology

OE feolaga f. ON f{eacute}lagi f. f{eacute} cattle, property, money: see LAY(1)

THESAURUS

Fellow

Adamite, Casanova, Don Juan, Greek, Lothario, Romeo, abecedarian, accessory, accompanier, accompanist, accompanying, accompanyist, ace, acquaintance, adjunct, advocate, affiliate, affiliated, allied, ally, alter ego, amigo, amoroso, analogon, analogue, associate, associated, attendant, attending, auxiliary, backer, bastard, beau, bedfellow, bedmate, being, belonger, best friend, bird, bloke, body, bosom buddy, bosom friend, boy, boyfriend, brother, brother-in-arms, bub, bubba, buck, bud, buddy, bugger, bunkie, bunkmate, butty, caballero, camarade, card-carrier, card-carrying member, cardholder, casual acquaintance, cat, cavalier, cavaliere servente, certified teacher, chamberfellow, chap, character, charter member, chum, classmate, close acquaintance, close copy, close friend, close match, clubber, clubman, clubwoman, coacting, coactive, coadjutant, coadjutor, coadjuvant, coefficient, coequal, cognate, cohort, coincident, collaborative, collateral, colleague, collective, collectivist, collectivistic, collusive, colt, comate, combined, commensal, committeeman, common, communal, communalist, communalistic, communist, communistic, communitarian, companion, companion piece, company, compatriot, compeer, complement, comrade, concerted, concomitant, concordant, concurrent, confederate, confidant, confidante, confrere, congenator, congener, conjoint, conniving, consociate, consort, conventioneer, conventioner, conventionist, cooperant, cooperating, cooperative, coordinate, copartner, copy, correlate, correlative, correspondent, counterpart, coupled, creature, crony, cub, customer, dead ringer, ditto, docent, doctor, dominie, don, double, duck, dues-paying member, duplicate, earthling, ecumenic, educationist, educator, effigy, enlistee, enrollee, equal, equipollent, equivalent, esquire, exact likeness, familiar, favorer, feller, fellow creature, fellow member, fellow student, fellowman, flame, fledgling, fraternity man, friend, gallant, gee, geezer, gent, gentleman, gigolo, girl friend, gossip, groundling, guide, guildsman, guru, guy, hand, harmonious, harmonized, he, head, hobbledehoy, homo, honorary member, human, human being, icon, idol, image, inamorato, individual, initiate, inseparable friend, insider, instructor, intimate, jasper, joined, joiner, joint, joker, kid, kindred spirit, lad, laddie, lady-killer, life, life member, like, likeness, living image, living picture, living soul, love, love-maker, lover, maestro, man, manchild, master, match, mate, melamed, member, mentor, messmate, miniature, mirroring, model, mortal, muchacho, mullah, mutual, near duplicate, necker, neighbor, noncompetitive, nose, obverse, old crony, old man, one, one of us, opposite number, other self, paired, pal, pandit, parallel, pard, pardner, partisan, partner, party, pedagogist, pedagogue, peer, pendant, person, personage, personality, petter, philanderer, photograph, pickup, picture, playfellow, playmate, pledge, portrait, preceptor, professor, pundit, pup, puppy, rabbi, reciprocal, reflection, related, repository, resemblance, rival, roommate, rubbing, schoolboy, schoolfellow, schoolkeeper, schoolmaster, schoolmate, schoolteacher, second self, seducer, semblance, shadow, sheik, shipmate, side partner, sidekick, similitude, simulacrum, simultaneous, single, sister, socius, somebody, someone, sonny, sonny boy, sorority girl, sorority woman, soul, soul mate, spit and image, spitting image, squire, starets, stud, such, suchlike, sugar daddy, suitor, supporter, swain, sweetheart, symbiotic, sympathizer, synergetic, synergic, synergistic, tally, teacher, teammate, tellurian, terran, the like of, the likes of, trace, tracing, twin, uncompetitive, very image, very picture, well-wisher, whelp, workfellow, worldling, yokefellow, yokemate, young man, youth

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Fellow

Equality

N equality, parity, coextension, symmetry, balance, poise, evenness, monotony, level, equivalence, equipollence, equipoise, equilibrium, equiponderance, par, quits, a wash, not a pin to choose, distinction without a difference, six of one and half a dozen of the other, tweedle dee and tweedle dum, identity, similarity, equalization, equation, equilibration, co-ordination, adjustment, readjustment, drawn game, drawn battle, neck and neck race, tie, draw, standoff, dead heat, match, peer, compeer, equal, mate, fellow, brother, equivalent, equal, even, level, monotonous, coequal, symmetrical, coordinate, on a par with, on a level with, on a footing with, up to the mark, equiparant, equivalent, tantamount, indistinguishable, quits, homologous, synonymous, resolvable into, convertible, much at one, as broad as long, neither more nor less, much the same as, the same thing as, as good as, all one, all the same, equipollent, equiponderant, equiponderous, equibalanced, equalized, drawn, half and half, isochronal, isochronous isoperimetric, isoperimetrical, isobath, isobathic, equally, pari passu, ad eundum, caeteris paribus, in equilibrio, to all intents and purposes, it comes to the same thing, it amounts to the same thing, what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gande.

Accompaniment

N accompaniment, adjunct, context, appendage, appurtenance, coexistence, concomitance, company, association, companionship, partnership, copartnership, coefficiency, concomitant, accessory, coefficient, companion, buddy, attendant, fellow, associate, friend, colleague, consort, spouse, mate, partner, co-partner, satellite, hanger on, fellow-traveller, shadow, escort, cortege, attribute, accompanying, concomitant, fellow, twin, joint, associated with, coupled with, accessory, attendant, obbligato, with, withal, together with, along with, in company with, hand in hand, side by side, cheek by jowl, cheek by jole, arm in arm, therewith, herewith, and, together, in a body, collectively, noscitur a sociis, virtutis fortuna comes, accompaniment, adjunct, context, appendage, appurtenance, coexistence, concomitance, company, association, companionship, partnership, copartnership, coefficiency, concomitant, accessory, coefficient, companion, buddy, attendant, fellow, associate, friend, colleague, consort, spouse, mate, partner, co-partner, satellite, hanger on, fellow-traveller, shadow, escort, cortege, attribute, accompanying, concomitant, fellow, twin, joint, associated with, coupled with, accessory, attendant, obbligato, with, withal, together with, along with, in company with, hand in hand, side by side, cheek by jowl, cheek by jole, arm in arm, therewith, herewith, and, together, in a body, collectively, noscitur a sociis, virtutis fortuna comes.

Man

N man, male, he, him, manhood, gentleman, sir, master, sahib, yeoman, wight, swain, fellow, blade, beau, elf, chap, gaffer, good man, husband, Mr, mister, boy, cock, drake, gander, dog, boar, stag, hart, buck, horse, entire horse, stallion, gibcat, tomcat, he goat, Billy goat, ram, tup, bull, bullock, capon, ox, gelding, steer, stot, androgen, homosexual, gay, queen, male, he-, masculine, manly, virile, unwomanly, unfeminine, Pron, he, him, his, hominem pagina nostra sapit, homo homini aut deus aut lupus, homo vitae commodatus non donatus est.

Scholar

N scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman, professor, graduate, wrangler, academician, academist, master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman, philosopher, master of math, scientist, clerk, sophist, sophister, linguist, glossolinguist, philologist, philologer, lexicographer, glossographer, grammarian, litterateur, literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti, fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi, Sanskritish, sinologist, sinologue, Mezzofanti, admirable Crichton, Mecaenas, bookworm, helluo librorum, bibliophile, bibliomaniac, bluestocking, bas-bleu, bigwig, learned Theban, don, Artium Baccalaureus, Artium Magister, learned man, literary man, homo multarum literarum, man of learning, man of letters, man of education, man of genius, antiquarian, antiquary, archaeologist, sage, pedant, doctrinaire, pedagogue, Dr, Pangloss, pantologist, criminologist, schoolboy, learned, brought up at the feet of Gamaliel, he was a scholar and a ripe and good one, the manifold linguist.