fellow

noun

1. a man or boy: a fine old fellow; a nice little fellow.
2. Informal. beau; suitor: Mary had her fellow over to meet her folks.
3. Informal. person; one: They don’t treat a fellow very well here.
4. a person of small worth or no esteem.
5. a companion; comrade; associate: They have been fellows since childhood.
6. a person belonging to the same rank or class; equal; peer: The doctor conferred with his fellows.
7. one of a pair; mate; match: a shoe without its fellow.
8. Education.
   1. a graduate student of a university or college to whom an allowance is granted for special study.
   2. British.an incorporated member of a college, entitled to certain privileges.
   3. a member of the corporation or board of trustees of certain universities or colleges.
9. a member of any of certain learned societies: a fellow of the British Academy.
10. Obsolete. a partner.

verb (used with object)

11. to make or represent as equal with another.
12. Archaic. to produce a fellow to; match.

adjective

13. belonging to the same class or group; united by the same occupation, interests, etc.; being in the same condition: fellow students; fellow sufferers.

noun

1. a man or boy
2. an informal word for boyfriend
3. informal one or oneselfa fellow has to eat
4. a person considered to be of little importance or worth
5. 1. (often plural)a companion; comrade; associate
   2. (as modifier)fellow travellers
6. (at Oxford and Cambridge universities) a member of the governing body of a college, who is usually a member of the teaching staff
7. a member of the governing body or established teaching staff at any of various universities or colleges
8. a postgraduate student employed, esp for a fixed period, to undertake research and, often, to do some teaching
9. 1. a person in the same group, class, or conditionthe surgeon asked his fellows
   2. (as modifier)fellow students; a fellow sufferer
10. one of a pair; counterpart; matelooking for the glove’s fellow

noun

1. a member of any of various learned societiesFellow of the British Academy

n.

c.1200, from Old English feolaga “fellow, partner,” from Old Norse felagi, from fe “money” (see fee) + verbal base denoting “lay” (see lay (v.)). Sense is of “one who puts down money with another in a joint venture.” Used familiarly since mid-15c. for “man, male person,” but not etymologically masculine.

University senses (mid-15c.), corresponding to Latin socius) evolved from notion of “one of the corporation who constitute a college” and who are paid from its revenues. First record of fellow-traveler in sense of “one who sympathizes with the Communist movement but is not a party member,” is from 1936, translating Russian poputchik. The literal sense is attested in English from 1610s.

see regular guy (fellow); strange bedfellows.