FELLOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fellow mean? 

• FELLOW (noun)
  The noun FELLOW has 7 senses:

1. a boy or man

2. a friend who is frequently in the company of another

3. a person who is member of one's class or profession

4. one of a pair

5. a member of a learned society

6. an informal form of address for a man

7. a man who is the lover of a man or woman

  Familiarity information: FELLOW used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FELLOW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A boy or man

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

blighter; bloke; chap; cuss; fella; feller; fellow; gent; lad

Context example:

he's a good bloke

Hypernyms ("fellow" is a kind of...):

male; male person (a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fellow"):

dog (informal term for a man)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A friend who is frequently in the company of another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

associate; companion; comrade; familiar; fellow

Context example:

comrades in arms

Hypernyms ("fellow" is a kind of...):

friend (a person you know well and regard with affection and trust)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fellow"):

date; escort (a participant in a date)

playfellow; playmate (a companion at play)

tovarich; tovarisch (a comrade (especially in Russian communism))

Derivation:

fellowship (the state of being with someone)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A person who is member of one's class or profession

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

colleague; confrere; fellow

Context example:

he sent e-mail to his fellow hackers

Hypernyms ("fellow" is a kind of...):

associate (a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor)

Derivation:

fellowship (an association of people who share common beliefs or activities)

Sense 4

Meaning:

One of a pair

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

fellow; mate

Context example:

one eye was blue but its fellow was brown

Hypernyms ("fellow" is a kind of...):

singleton (a single object (as distinguished from a pair))

Holonyms ("fellow" is a part of...):

brace; couple; couplet; distich; duad; duet; duo; dyad; pair; span; twain; twosome; yoke (two items of the same kind)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A member of a learned society

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

he was elected a fellow of the American Physiological Association

Hypernyms ("fellow" is a kind of...):

fellow member; member (one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization))

Sense 6

Meaning:

An informal form of address for a man

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

buster; dude; fellow

Context example:

Hey buster, what's up?

Hypernyms ("fellow" is a kind of...):

adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))

Sense 7

Meaning:

A man who is the lover of a man or woman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

beau; boyfriend; fellow; swain

Context example:

When the law changed, Pet could finally married his long-time boyfriend Jim

Hypernyms ("fellow" is a kind of...):

lover (a person who loves someone or is loved by someone)

adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))

 Context examples 

And I'll tell you what, my dear Copperfield, said Mr. Micawber, your friend Heep is a young fellow who might be attorney-general.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Fellow of American College of Physicians is a member of society of internal medicine practitioners.

(Fellow of American College of Physicians, NCI Thesaurus)

One of them was a big, snow-white fellow from Spitzbergen who had been brought away by a whaling captain, and who had later accompanied a Geological Survey into the Barrens.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Fellow of American College of Surgeons is a member of a society of surgical medicine practitioners.

(Fellow of American College of Surgeons, NCI Thesaurus)

He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student, but in vain.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I’ve had to do with fifty murderers in my career, but the worst of them never gave me the repulsion which I have for this fellow.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet slightly dirty water such as that which has been used for laundry is still effective when combined with soap, handwashing specialist Myriam Sidibe, a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, told.

(Slightly dirty water ‘still ok’ against coronavirus, SciDev.Net)

Take the good-for-nothing fellow out of our house.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

That fellow was vicious, he decided.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The poor fellow was laid to rest quite near our seat so that we stood on it when the time came and saw everything.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)