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FELLOW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A man who is the lover of a man or woman
Example:
When the law changed, Pet could finally married his long-time boyfriend Jim
Synonyms:
beau; boyfriend; fellow; swain
Classified under:
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))
Sense 2
Meaning:
A boy or man
Example:
he's a good bloke
Synonyms:
blighter; bloke; chap; cuss; fella; feller; fellow; gent; lad
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
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 3
Meaning:
A person who is member of one's class or profession
Example:
he sent e-mail to his fellow hackers
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
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:
A friend who is frequently in the company of another
Example:
comrades in arms
Synonyms:
associate; companion; comrade; familiar; fellow
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
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 5
Meaning:
An informal form of address for a man
Example:
Hey buster, what's up?
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("fellow" is a kind of...):
adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))
Sense 6
Meaning:
A member of a learned society
Example:
he was elected a fellow of the American Physiological Association
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
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 7
Meaning:
One of a pair
Example:
one eye was blue but its fellow was brown
Synonyms:
fellow; mate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
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)
Context examples:
Dr Kai Hensel, a senior clinical fellow at the University of Cambridge says that there were two main reasons for carrying you the study.
(Wine before beer, or beer before wine? Either way, you’ll be hungover, University of Cambridge)
A member of the Europa Clipper science team, McGrath delivered a presentation to fellow team scientists, highlighting other Hubble observations of Europa.
(Old Data Reveal New Evidence of Europa Plumes, NASA)
As rigid as the sled-discipline of the gods, was the discipline maintained by White Fang amongst his fellows.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
You wouldn't have me let that fine fellow work himself to death just for want of a little help, when he is worth a dozen of us lazy chaps, would you?
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
This full moon is as sweet as sugar, and Mars will be supportive, for he is in Sagittarius, a fellow fire sign in ideal angle to your Sun and full moon.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
My dear fellow, I know you well.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Our people, who discovered the cause of my mirth, bore me company in laughing, at which the old fellow was fool enough to be angry and out of countenance.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
And you hear that fellow with a frog in his throat—a steam schooner as near as I can judge, crawlin’ in from the Heads against the tide.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
My grandfather was at that time the King of the Winged Monkeys which lived in the forest near Gayelette's palace, and the old fellow loved a joke better than a good dinner.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
The old fellow's fury was awful.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
