fellow Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a boy or man
    fella; cuss; blighter; lad; gent; bloke; chap; feller.
    • that chap is your host
    • there's a fellow at the door
    • he's a likable cuss
    • he's a good bloke
  2. noun a friend who is frequently in the company of another
    familiar; comrade; associate; companion.
    • drinking companions
    • comrades in arms
  3. noun a person who is member of one's class or profession
    colleague; confrere.
    • the surgeon consulted his colleagues
    • he sent e-mail to his fellow hackers
  4. noun one of a pair
    mate.
    • he lost the mate to his shoe
    • one eye was blue but its fellow was brown
  5. noun a member of a learned society
    • he was elected a fellow of the American Physiological Association
  6. noun an informal form of address for a man
    dude; buster.
    • Say, fellow, what are you doing?
    • Hey buster, what's up?
  7. noun a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman
    swain; beau; young man; boyfriend.
    • if I'd known he was her boyfriend I wouldn't have asked

WordNet

Fel"low noun
Etymology
OE. felawe, felaghe, Icel. felagi, fr. felag companionship, prop., a laying together of property; fe property + lag a laying, pl. lög law, akin to liggja to lie. See Fee, and Law, Lie to be low.
Definitions
  1. A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer.
    The fellows of his crime. Milton.
    We are fellows still, Serving alike in sorrow. Shak.
    That enormous engine was flanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude. Gibbon.
    ✍ Commonly used of men, but sometimes of women. Judges xi. 37.
  2. A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man.
    Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow. Pope.
  3. An equal in power, rank, character, etc.
    It is impossible that ever Rome Should breed thy fellow. Shak.
  4. One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate; the male.
    When they be but heifers of one year, . . . they are let go to the fellow and breed. Holland.
    This was my glove; here is the fellow of it. Shak.
  5. A person; an individual.
    She seemed to be a good sort of fellow. Dickens.
  6. In the English universities, a scholar who is appointed to a foundation called a fellowship, which gives a title to certain perquisites and privileges.
  7. In an American college or university, a member of the corporation which manages its business interests; also, a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the foundation.
  8. A member of a literary or scientific society; as, a Fellow of the Royal Society. ✍ Fellow is often used in compound words, or adjectively, signifying associate, companion, or sometimes equal. Usually, such compounds or phrases are self-explanatory; as, fellow-citizen, or fellow citizen; fellow-student, or fellow student; fellow-workman, or fellow workman; fellow-mortal, or fellow mortal; fellow-sufferer; bedfellow; playfellow; workfellow.
    Were the great duke himself here, and would lift up My head to fellow pomp amongst his nobles. Ford.
Fel"low transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To suit with; to pair with; to match. Obs. Shak.

Webster 1913