Noun: fellow fe-low
- A boy or man
"there's a fellow at the door";
- chap [Brit, informal], feller [non-standard], fella [informal], lad [informal], gent [informal], blighter [Brit, informal], cuss [informal], bloke [Brit, informal], boyo [UK, Ireland], bucko [informal], dog [informal]
- A friend who is frequently in the company of another
"drinking fellows";
- companion, comrade, familiar, associate, yokefellow [N. Amer]
- A person who is member of one's class or profession
"he sent e-mail to his fellow hackers";
- colleague, confrère
- An informal form of address for a man
"Say, fellow, what are you doing?";
- dude [informal], buster [informal], matey [Brit, informal], cock [Brit, informal], bruv [UK, informal], bro [US, informal], bo [US, informal]
- A member of a learned society
"he was elected a fellow of the American Physiological Association"
- A man who is the lover of a man or woman
"if I'd known he was her fellow I wouldn't have asked";
- boyfriend, beau [archaic], swain [archaic], boyf [Brit, informal]
- One of a pair
"one eye was blue but its fellow was brown";
- mate
- [UK] An academic who is a member of a college
"As a fellow of Oxford University, she had access to exclusive research facilities"
- An academic having a grant for research or advanced study; someone having a fellowship
"The fellow spent a year studying climate change";
- research fellow
- Sharing the same characteristics or circumstances
"My fellow citizens"
Sounds like: fella, fellah, felllow, fe
Derived forms: fellows
Type of: adult male, associate, bozo [N. Amer, informal], cat [N. Amer, informal], chappie [Brit, informal], china [Brit, informal], fellow member, friend, geezer [Brit, informal], guy [informal], hombre [N. Amer, informal], lover, male, male person, man, mate [Brit, informal], member, singleton, sod [informal]
Part of: brace, couple, couplet, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke
Encyclopedia: Fellow, Life Management Institute