From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
fellow
n 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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Fellow \Fel"low\, v. t.
To suit with; to pair with; to match. [Obs.] --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Fellow \Fel"low\, n. [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.
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The fellows of his crime. --Milton.
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We are fellows still,
Serving alike in sorrow. --Shak.
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That enormous engine was flanked by two fellows
almost of equal magnitude. --Gibbon.
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Note: Commonly used of men, but sometimes of women. --Judges
xi. 37.
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2. A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean
man.
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Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow.
--Pope.
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3. An equal in power, rank, character, etc.
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It is impossible that ever Rome
Should breed thy fellow. --Shak.
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4. One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to
each other; a mate; the male.
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When they be but heifers of one year, . . . they are
let go to the fellow and breed. --Holland.
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This was my glove; here is the fellow of it. --Shak.
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5. A person; an individual.
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She seemed to be a good sort of fellow. --Dickens.
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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.
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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.
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8. A member of a literary or scientific society; as, a Fellow
of the Royal Society.
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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.
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Were the great duke himself here, and would lift
up
My head to fellow pomp amongst his nobles.
--Ford.
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