fellows

nounmale or female colleague, friend

Synonyms for fellows

noun male or female colleague, friend

Antonyms for fellows

Word Origin & History

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.

Example Sentences for fellows

His name was instantly passed on by the fugitive to his fellows as a "safe" man.

Why, man, with you at my back I'd laugh at twenty fellows like these.

Scottie, you fellows, even when you had Allister to lead you, couldn't get off scot-free from Dozier.

Because they are a low set of fellows with whom I have nothing in common.

God has given me gifts to use for my fellows, and use them I must till he, not man, stops me.

He could make the fellows in these saloons roar with laughter.

He had not grown vicious, as have so many of his fellows among the sons of the rich.

The girl held herself rigidly from any personal intimacy with her fellows.

Some of the fellows have crushes on girls and get over them.

I caught one of these fellows quizzing me through an eye-glass.

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