4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Fellow \Fel"low\, noun [OE. felawe, felaghe, Icel. f[=e]lagi, fr. f[=e]lag companionship, prop., a laying together of property; f[=e] property + lag a laying, pl. l["o]g law, akin to liggja to lie. See {Fee}, and {Law}, {Lie} to be low.] 1. A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer. The fellows of his crime. --Milton. We are fellows still, Serving alike in sorrow. --Shak. That enormous engine was flanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude. --Gibbon. Note: Commonly used of men, but sometimes of women. --Judges xi. 37. 2. A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man. Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow. --Pope. 3. An equal in power, rank, character, etc. It is impossible that ever Rome Should breed thy fellow. --Shak. 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. --Holland. This was my glove; here is the fellow of it. --Shak. 5. A person; an individual. She seemed to be a good sort of fellow. --Dickens. 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. --Ford. From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Fellow \Fel"low\, verb (used with an object) To suit with; to pair with; to match. [Obs.] --Shak. From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: fellow noun 1: a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss" [syn: {chap}, {feller}, {lad}, {gent}, {fella}, {blighter}, {cuss}] 2: a person who is frequently in the company of another; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms" [syn: {companion}, {comrade}, {familiar}, {associate}] 3: a person who is member of your class or profession; "the surgeon consulted his colleagues"; "he sent e-mail to his fellow hackers" [syn: {colleague}, {confrere}] 4: an informal form of address for a man; "Say, fellow, what are you doing?"; "Hey buster, what's up?" [syn: {buster}] 5: a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman; "if I'd known he was her boyfriend I wouldn't have asked" [syn: {boyfriend}, {beau}, {swain}, {young man}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 367 Moby Thesaurus words for "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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