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==English==
{{was wotd|2022|April|28}}

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈfɛləʊ/|a=RP}}
* {{IPA|en|/ˈfɛloʊ/|a=GA}}
* {{audio|en|En-us-fellow.ogg|a=GA}}
* {{IPA|en|/ˈfɛlə/|a=informal,nonstandard}}
* {{hmp|en|felloe}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɛləʊ|s=2}}
* {{hyphenation|en|fel|low}}

===Etymology 1===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*peḱ-|id=livestock|*legʰ-}}
From {{inh|en|enm|felowe}}, Early {{inh|en|enm|felage|t=companion, good friend}}<ref>{{R:MED Online|entry=fē̆lau(e|pos=n|id=MED15496}}</ref> from {{inh|en|ang|fēolaga}}, from {{der|en|non|félagi}}, derived from {{m|non|félag|t=joint venture; partnership|lit=a laying together of property}}, from {{m|non|fé|t=livestock, property; money}} (ultimately from {{der|en|ine-pro|*peḱ-|t=livestock; wealth}}) + {{m|non|lag|t=something laid down; right position; arrangement; companionship, fellowship; partnership}} (ultimately from {{der|en|ine-pro|*legʰ-|t=to lie down}}).<ref name="OED">{{R:OED Online|pos=n|id=69094|date=March 2022|nodot=1}}; {{R:Lexico|pos=n}}</ref>

{{rel-top|cognates}}
* {{cog|non|filaga}}, {{m|non|felaka|pos=accusative singular|t=partner}}, from which the other terms are derived:
* {{cog|da|fælle|t=companion}}
* {{cog|fo|felagi|t=member; partner}}
* {{cog|is|félagi|t=companion, comrade, fellow; member; partner}}
* {{cog|no|felle|t=companion}}
* {{cog|gmq-osw|fälaghi}} (modern {{cog|sv|felaga}}, {{m|sv|felaha|pos=accusative singular|t=partner}})
* {{cog|sco|falow}}, {{m|sco|fallow}}, {{m|sco|follow|t=associate, companion, comrade}}
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====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|chiefly|in the plural|also|figuratively}} A [[companion#Noun|companion]]; a [[comrade#Noun|comrade]].
#: {{synonyms|en|Thesaurus:associate}}
#* {{RQ:Calvin Golding Ephesians|chapter=The .XXXIIII. Sermon, which is the Second vppon the Fifth Chapter|folio=245|verso=1|passage=But now vnderſtand you, that the kingdome of God is communicated vntoo you by our Lord Jeſus Chriſt, bycauſe he hath purchaced it for you, and made you his brethren and '''fellowes'''.}}
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Timon of Athens|act=IV|scene=ii|page=90|column=1|passage=[W]e are '''Fellovves''' ſtill, / Seruing alike in ſorrovv: {{...}}}}
#* {{RQ:Sylvester Du Bartas|day=4|part=2|pages=559–560|pageref=560|passage=Rich-men adore their Gold: whoſo aſpires / To lift to Heav'n his ſight and Soules Deſires, / He muſt be Poor (at leaſt-vviſe like the Poor). / Riches and Fear are '''fellovvs''' euer-more.}}
#* {{RQ:King James Version|Judges|11|37|column=1|passage=And ſhe ſaid vnto her father &#91;{{w|Jephthah}}&#93;, Let this thing be done for me: Let me alone two moneths, that I may goe vp and downe vpon the mountaines, and bewaile my virginitie, I, and my '''fellowes'''.}}
#* {{RQ:Book of Common Prayer|year=1662|chapter=The Psalmes of DAVID, of the Old Translation, Pointed as They Shall be Said or Sung in Churches. &#91;Psal&#91;m&#93; 45.&#93;|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t8tCG6Tlr60C&pg=RA4-PA4|column=1|passage=The kings daughter is all glorious vvithin: her clothing is of vvrought gold. She ſhall be brought unto the king in raiment of needle-vvork: the virgins that be her '''fellovvs''' ſhall bear her company, and ſhall be brought unto thee.}}
#* {{RQ:Defoe New Voyage|part=I|page=70|passage=[T]he Natives quarrelling vvith their Men, upon ſome Rudeneſs offer'd to their VVomen; and they being ſeparated from their '''Fellovvs''', vvere oblig'd to fly, {{...}}}}
#* {{RQ:Scott Canongate 2|volume=II|chapter=IX|page=253|passage=[T]his dead fellow had been misused by Rothsay and his '''fellows''', who were in the street in mask and revel, stopping men and women, compelling them to dance, or to drink huge quantities of wine, with other follies needless to recount; {{...}}}}
#* {{RQ:Macaulay History of England|volume=II|chapter=VI|page=116|passage=One rioter was seized, and ordered by the privy council to be whipped. His '''fellows''' rescued him and beat the hangman.}}
#* {{RQ:Robert Browning Men and Women|volume=II|poem=Old Pictures in Florence|stanza=8|page=34|passage=When you style them, you of the little wit, / Old Master this and Early the other, / Not dreaming that Old and New are '''fellows''', / That a younger succeeds to an elder brother, / [[w:Leonardo da Vinci|Da Vincis]] derive in good time from [[w:Dello di Niccolò Delli|Dellos]].}}
#* {{RQ:Hough Purchase Price|chapter=The Gateway, and Some Who Passed|page=29|passage=Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their '''fellows''', yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.}}
# {{lb|en|chiefly|in the plural}} An [[animal]] which is a [[member#Noun|member]] of a [[breed#Noun|breed]] or [[species]], or a [[flock#Noun|flock]], [[herd#Noun|herd]], etc.
#* {{RQ:Livy Holland Romane Historie|year=1659|book=I|page=6|passage=But as ſome of the Oxen in driving, miſſed their '''fellovvs''' behind and honing after them, '''bellovved''' as their nature is: ''{{w|Hercules}}'' chanced to heare them lovv again, and anſvver from out of the cave vvherein they had been beſtovved: vvhereat he turned back, and made haſte thither.}}
#* {{RQ:L'Estrange Fables of Aesop|fablenumber=CCCXXX|fable=A Sheep-biter Hang’d|page=287|passage=A Certain ''Shepherd'' had One ''Favourite-Dog'', that he had a Particular Confidence in above all the reſt. He fed him vvith his Ovvn hand, and took more Care of him, in ſhort, then of any of his '''Fellovvs'''.}}
# {{lb|en|chiefly|in the plural}} An [[object#Noun|object]] which is [[associated#Adjective|associated]] with another object; especially, as [[part#Noun|part]] of a [[set#Noun|set]].
#* {{RQ:Homer Pope et al Odyssey|book=III|page=118|lines=382–383|passage=But five tall barks the vvinds and vvaters toſt / Far from their '''fellovvs''', on th’''Ægyptian'' coaſt.}}
#* {{RQ:Gibbon Roman Empire|volume=VI|chapter=LXVII|page=485|passage=The great cannon of [[w:Mehmed the Conqueror|Mahomet]] has been ſeparately noticed; an important and viſible object in the hiſtory of the times: but that enormous engine was flanked by two '''fellows''' [''i.e.'', cannons] almoſt of equal magnitude: {{...}}}}
# {{lb|en|also|attributively}} A [[person#Noun|person]] or [[thing]] [[comparable#Adjective|comparable]] in [[characteristic#Noun|characteristics]] with another person or thing; especially, as [[belong]]ing to the same [[class#Noun|class]] or [[group#Noun|group]].
#: {{ux|en|my '''fellow''' Americans}}
#: {{ux|en|Rebecca and her '''fellow''' workers are to go on strike.}}
#* {{RQ:Middleton Tourneur Revengers Tragaedie|page=13|passage=Indeed he vvas a vvorthy Gentleman / Had his eſtate beene '''fellovv''' to his mind.}}
#* {{RQ:Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress|edition=5th|pages=85–86|pageref=85|passage=He that ſhall die there, although his death will be unnatural, and his pain perhaps great, he will yet have the better of his '''fellow'''; not only becauſe he will be arrived at the Cœleſtial City ſooneſt, but becauſe he will eſcape many miſeries that the other will meet with in the reſt of his journey.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:James Francis Hogan|chapter=Preface|chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=xnDOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP9|title=The Irish in Australia|location=London|publisher=Ward & Downey,{{nb...|12, York Street, Covent Garden.}}|year=1887|oclc=81343284|passage=It is now some five years since I conceived the idea of writing a history of my '''fellow'''-countrymen in Australasia, but it was only within the last year or two that I could find sufficient time to make any material progress with the undertaking, although I had been collecting the materials for some period in advance.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Mrs. {{w|Arthur Lyttelton}} [''i.e.'', {{w|Kathleen Lyttelton}}]|chapter=Professions|title=Women and Their Work|location=London|publisher=[[w:Methuen Publishing|Methuen & Co.]]{{nb...|36 Essex Street W.C.}}|month=July|year=1901|page=112|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=IwRPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA112|oclc=2453505|passage=There are journalists who work for a low rate of pay, just as there are poor women who take in needlework at a cheaper rate than their '''fellows''', and they are alike making life more difficult for other women.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Anna Stilz|chapter=Legitimacy and Self-determination|title=Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration|location=Oxford, Oxfordshire|publisher=w:Oxford University Press|year=2019|section=part II (Self-determination)|page=99|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=rbSmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA99|isbn=978-0-19-883353-6|passage=An important part of treating others as independent persons involves respecting them as autonomous deliberators, who can reason for themselves how to act. Yet our imagined neighbor is insensitive to the need to engage her '''fellows''' in this way. She does not offer them any reasons that might lead them to share her point of view about what justice requires, nor does she inquire into, or respond to, their reasons for not sharing it.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=Paul Bigland|title=My Weirdest and Wackiest Rover Yet|magazine=[[w:Rail (magazine)|Rail]]|location=Peterborough, Cambridgeshire|publisher=[[w:Bauer Media Group|Bauer Media]]|date=2 December 2020|page=68|issn=0953-4563|oclc=999467860|passage=My '''fellow''' passengers are a mixture of people returning from a day out in the capital, locals doing short hops, and a few (like me) heading farther afield.}}
## {{lb|en|chiefly in the negative}} A person with [[ability|abilities]], [[achievement]]s, [[skill#Noun|skills]], etc., [[equal#Adjective|equal]] to those of another person; a thing with characteristics, [[worth#Noun|worth]], etc., equal to those of another thing.
##: {{ux|en|to be without '''fellow'''&emsp;&emsp;&emsp; to have no '''fellows'''}}
##* {{RQ:More Robinson Utopia|sig=B.i.|verso=1|sigend=B.ii.|page=32|passage=[I]n reaſonynge, and debatynge of matters what by his naturall witte, & what by daylye exerciſe, ſuerlye he hadde fewe '''fellowes'''.}}
##* {{RQ:Shakespeare Julius Caesar|act=III|scene=i|page=119|column=1|passage=But I am conſtant as the Northerne Starre, / Of vvhoſe true fixt, and reſting quality, / There is no '''fellovv''' in the Firmament.}}
##* {{RQ:Shakespeare Macbeth|act=II|scene=iii|page=137|column=2|passage=''Macb''[''eth'']. 'Tvvas a rough Night. / ''Len''[''n'']''ox''. My young remembrance cannot paralell / A '''fellovv''' to it.}}
##* {{RQ:De Quevedo L'Estrange Visions|page=258|passage=There happen'd lately ſo terrible an ''Uproar'', and ''Diſorder'' in ''Hell'', that (though it be a place of perpetual ''Outrage'', and ''Confuſion'') the oldeſt Devil there never knevv the '''Fellovv''' of it; and the ''Inhabitants'' expected nothing leſs then an abſolute ''Topſy-Turvy'', and ''Diſſolution of their Empire''.}}
##* {{RQ:Swift Directions to Servants|chapter=I (Directions to the Butler)|page=122|passage=Put your finger into every bottle to feel whether it be full, which is the surest way, for feeling has no '''fellow'''.}}
##* {{RQ:Richardson Pamela|volume=I|chapter=Letter XXVIII|page=96|passage=And here are four other Shifts, one the '''Fellovv''' to that I have on; another pretty good one, and the other tvvo old fine ones, that vvill ſerve me to turn and vvind vvith at home, for they are not vvorth leaving behind me; {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Smollett Peregrine Pickle|chapter=Peregrine is Sent to a Boarding-school, Becomes Remarkable for His Genius and Ambition|page=36|passage=[T]his ſerves to inform you, that Mr. Jennings is gone, and Mr. Keypſtick will never meet with his '''fellow'''.}}
## {{lb|en|chiefly|in the plural}} One in the [[same#Adjective|same]] [[condition#Noun|condition]], or [[situation]] of [[need#Noun|need]], as another.
##* {{RQ:Hobbes Leviathan|chapter=Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Common-wealth|page=87|passage=[I]rrationall creatures cannot diſtinguiſh betvveene ''Injury'', and ''Dammage''; and therefore as long as they be at eaſe, they are not offended vvith their '''fellovves''': {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Goldsmith Traveller|page=4|passage=And oft I wiſh, amidſt the ſcene, to find / Some ſpot to real happineſs conſign'd, / Where my worn ſoul, each wand'ring hope at reſt, / May gather bliſs to ſee my '''fellows''' bleſt.}}
##* {{RQ:Byron Mazeppa|stanza=III|lines=51–52|page=7|passage=For danger levels man and brute, / And all are '''fellows''' in their need.}}
## {{lb|en|archaic|chiefly|in the plural}}
### An [[equal#Noun|equal]] in [[character#Noun|character]], [[power#Noun|power]], [[rank#Noun|rank]], etc.; a [[peer#Noun|peer]].
###* {{RQ:Shakespeare Julius Caesar|act=V|scene=iii|page=129|column=1|passage=Are yet tvvo Romans liuing ſuch as theſe? / The laſt of all the Romans, far thee vvell: / It is impoſſible, that euer ''Rome'' / Should breed thy '''fellovv'''.}}
###* {{RQ:Tasso Fairfax Godfrey of Bulloigne|book=1|stanza=12|page=3|passage=[C]hieftaine of the reſt / I choſe him heere, the earth ſhall him allovv, / His '''fellovves''' late, ſhall be his ſubiects novv.}}
### A person [[live#Verb|living]] at the same [[time#Noun|time]], or about the same [[age#Noun|age]] as another, especially when in the same [[field#Noun|field]] of [[study#Noun|study]] or [[work#Noun|work]].
# ''Often in the form'' '''Fellow''': {{non-gloss|academic senses.}}
## Originally, one of a group of [[academic#Noun|academics]] who [[make up]] a [[college]] or [[similar#Adjective|similar]] [[educational institution]]; now, a [[senior#Adjective|senior]] member of a college or similar educational institution [[involve]]d in [[teaching#Noun|teaching]], [[research#Noun|research]], and [[management]] of the institution.
##* {{RQ:Fuller Church History|book=X|section=III|sectionname=To [[w:Thomas Dacres (younger)|Thomæ Dacres]] de Chesthunt, Armig:|subsection=19 (An Act for Chelsey-Colledge)|page=50|passage=In the Parliament novv ſitting at ''VVeſtminſter'' (in vvhoſe parallel Convocation nothing of conſequence) the moſt remarkable thing Enacted vvas, the Act made to enable the ''Provoſt'', and '''''Fellovves''' of Chelsey-Colledge, to dig a trench'' out of the river ''Lee'', {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Wood Athenae Oxonienses|volume=I|entry=[[w:John Stanbridge|JOHN STANBRIDGE]]|column=17|passage=One ''Thomas Stanbridge'', {{...}} vvho dying 1522, left ſeveral Books to the Coll. of vvhich he had been '''Fellovv'''; vvhich, if I miſtake not, vvas ''Magd''[''alen''] College.}}
##* {{RQ:Macaulay History of England|volume=II|chapter=VIII|page=289|passage=The '''fellows''' [of Magdalene College, Cambridge] were, by the statutes which their founder had drawn up, empowered to select their own president from among persons who were, or had been, '''fellows''' either of their society or of New College.}}
## {{n-g|An [[honorary]] [[title#Noun|title]] [[bestow]]ed by a college or [[university]] upon a [[distinguished#Adjective|distinguished]] person (often an [[alumna]] or [[alumnus]]).}}
## A (senior) member of a [[learned#Adjective|learned]] or [[professional#Adjective|professional]] [[society]].
##: {{ux|en|a '''Fellow''' of the Royal Society}}
##* {{RQ:Evelyn Diary|volume=I|entrydate=6 January 1661|page=329|passage=I was now chosen (and nominated by his Majestie for one of y{{sup|e}} Council) by suffrage of the rest of y{{sup|e}} Members, a '''Fellow''' of y{{sup|e}} Philosophic Society now meeting at Gresham College, where was an assembly of divers learning gentlemen.}}
### {{lb|en|specifically|Britain|historical}} A senior member of an [[Inn of Court]].
###* {{RQ:Wood Athenae Oxonienses|volume=I|entry=WILLIAM BLANDIE|columns=147–148|columnref=147|passage=About the ſame time he vvent to ''London'', became '''Fellovv''' of the ''Middle Temple'', and aftervvards tranſlated from Lat. to Engliſh ''The five Books of Hieronimus Oſorius, containing a diſcourſe of Civil and Chriſtian Nobility'', Lond. 1576. qu[arto].}}
## {{lb|en|chiefly|Britain}} A [[scholar]] [[appoint]]ed to a [[fellowship]], that is, a [[paid#Adjective|paid]] [[academic#Adjective|academic]] [[position#Noun|position]] [[hold#Verb|held]] for a certain [[period]] which usually [[require]]s the scholar to [[conduct#Verb|conduct]] research.
## {{lb|en|Canada|US}} A [[physician]] [[undergo]]ing a fellowship ([[supervised#Adjective|supervised]] [[subspecialty]] [[medical#Adjective|medical]] [[training#Noun|training]]) after having [[complete#Verb|completed]] a [[residency]] ([[specialty]] training program).
## {{lb|en|US}} A member of a college or university who [[manage]]s its [[business]] [[interest#Noun|interests]].
## {{lb|en|US}} A senior [[researcher]] or [[technician]] in a [[corporation]], especially one [[engage]]d in research and [[development]].
# {{lb|en|informal}} A [[male#Adjective|male]] person; a [[bloke]], a [[chap#Noun|chap]], a [[guy#Noun|guy]], a [[man#Noun|man]]; also, ''preceded by a modifying word, sometimes with a [[sense#Noun|sense]] of [[mild#Adjective|mild]] [[reproach#Noun|reproach]]'': {{non-gloss|used as a [[familiar#Adjective|familiar]] [[term#Noun|term]] of [[address#Noun|address]] to a man}}.
#: {{synonyms|en|Thesaurus:man}}
#: {{ux|en|my dear '''fellow'''&emsp;&emsp;&emsp; old '''fellow'''}}
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Timon of Athens|act=I|scene=i|page=82|column=1|passage=Looke in thy laſt vvorke, vvhere thou haſt fegin'd{{sic|feign'd}} him a vvorthy '''Fellovv'''.}}
#* {{RQ:Hall Recollection|title=Farewell Sermon|page=687|passage=[H]ovv happy ſhall vve be, if each of vs ſhal haue God to go vvith him! Certainely (my deare '''fellovves''') vve ſhall neuer complaine of the vvant of Maiſters, of friends, vvhile vve finde our ſelues ſure of him; nothing can make vs miſerable vvhile vve are furniſhed vvith him.}}
#* {{RQ:Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress|page=105|passage=He is the Son of one ''Sayvvell'', he dvvelt in ''Prating-rovv''; and he is knovvn of all that are acquainted with him, by the name of ''Talkative'' in ''Prating-rovv''; and notvvithſtanding his fine tongue, he is but a ſorry '''fellovv'''.}}
#* {{RQ:Spectator|author=Steele|issue=48|date=25 April 1711|page=312|passage=I am an old '''fellow''', and extremely troubled with the gout; but having always a strong vanity towards being pleasing in the eyes of women, I never have a moment's ease, but I am mounted in high-heeled shoes, with a glazed wax-leather instep.}}
#* {{RQ:Fielding Tom Jones|volume=IV|book=XII|chapter=Containing a Remark or Two of Our Own, and Many More of the Good Company Assembled in the Kitchin|page=240|passage=[Y]ou don't knovv vvhat a Devil of a '''Fellovv''' he is. He can take me up vvith one Hand, and throvv me out at VVindow, {{...}}}}
#* {{RQ:Hume Morals|page=163|passage=Thus, I have obſerv'd, that, amongſt the ''French'', the firſt Queſtions, with regard to a Stranger, are, ''Is he polite? Has he Wit?'' In our own Country, the chief Praiſe beſtow'd is always that of a ''good-natur'd, ſenſible '''Fellow'''''.}}
#* {{RQ:Sterne Sentimental Journey|volume=I|chapter=The Case of Conscience. Paris.|page=111|passage=Then I ſhall let him ſee I knovv he is a dirty '''fellovv'''.}}
#* {{RQ:Marryat Midshipman|volume=II|page=124|passage=My good '''fellow''', we did not come here. Destiny brought us in a cart. She may take us to Tyburn in the same way.}}
#* {{RQ:Dickens Christmas Carol|pages=163–164|passage="A merry Christmas, Bob!" said Scrooge, with an earnestness that could not be mistaken, as he clapped him on the back. "A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good '''fellow''', than I have given you, for many a year!{{nb...}}"}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Cuthbert Bede [pseudonym; [[w:Edward Bradley (writer)|Edward Bradley]]]|chapter=Mr. Verdant Green’s Morning Reflections are Not so Pleasant as His Evening Diversions|title=[[w:The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green|The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman]]|location=London|publisher={{w|Nathaniel Cooke}}, (late Ingram, Cooke, and Co.){{nb...|Milford House, Strand.}}|year=1853|page=70|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=uJZhAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA70|oclc=1079210034|passage=["{{w|For He's a Jolly Good Fellow}}"] For he's a jolly good '''fellow'''! / For he's a jolly good '''fellow'''!! / For he's a jolly good '''f-e-e-ell-ow'''!!! / Which nobody can deny!}}
#* {{RQ:Hughes Tom Brown at Oxford|chapter=The First Bump|page=207|passage="Don't think about it, old '''fellow'''; that's your best plan." / "But I can't think of any thing else," said Tom. "What the deuce is the good of telling a '''fellow''' not to think about it?"}}
#* {{RQ:Trollope Prime Minister|volume=II|chapter=The Duchess's New Swan|page=5|passage=I think he's a very pleasant '''fellow''', and I'm sure he's a rising man.}}
#* {{RQ:Saki Reginald in Russia|story=The Strategist|page=85|passage="There'll be about ten girls," speculated Rollo, as he drove to the function, "and I suppose four '''fellows''', unless the Wrotsleys bring their cousin, which Heaven forbid. That would mean Jack and me agains three of them."}}
#* {{RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp|chapter=XII|page=85|passage=By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear '''fellow''', we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing.}}
#* {{RQ:Faulkner As I Lay Dying|chapter=Tull|page=58|passage=Now and then a '''fellow''' gets to thinking about it. Not often, though. Which is a good thing.}}
# {{senseid|en|Q5}}{{lb|en|rare}} ''Usually [[qualify|qualified]] by an {{glossary|adjective}} or used in the plural'': an [[individual#Noun|individual]] or person [[regardless]] of [[gender#Noun|gender]].
#* {{RQ:Dickens Old Curiosity Shop|chapter=35|page=298|passage=[H]e would sometimes reward her with a hearty slap on the back, and protest that she was a devilish good '''fellow''', a jolly dog, and so forth; all of which compliments Miss Sally would receive in entire good part and with perfect satisfaction.}}
#* {{RQ:Dickens Great Expectations|volume=II|chapter=XVII|page=287|passage=The cut of her dress from the waist upward, both before and behind, made her figure very like a boy's kite; and I might have pronounced her gown a little too decidedly-orange, and her gloves a little too intensely green. But she seemed to be a good sort of '''fellow''', and showed a high regard for the Aged.}}
#* {{RQ:Stoker Dracula|chapter=V|page=64|passage=Lucy, you are an honest-hearted girl, I know. I should not be here speaking to you as I am now if I did not believe you clean grit, right through to the very depths of your soul. Tell me, like one good '''fellow''' to another, is there any one else that you care for?}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author={{w|Laura Lee Hope}} [pseudonym]|chapter=The Great Marine Film|title=The Moving Picture Girls at Sea: Or A Pictured Shipwreck that Became Real|location=Cleveland, Oh.; New York, N.Y.|publisher=The World Syndicate Publishing Co.|year=1915|page=3|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/movingpicturegirhope/page/3/mode/1up|oclc=3388799|passage=Not that the girl on the couch, with closed eyes, was unrefined. But there was a wholesome air of good health about her that caused one to think of a "jolly good '''fellow'''," rather than a girl who needed to be helped on and off trolley cars.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=[[w:Harold Lamb|H[arold] A[lbert] Lamb]]|title=Call of the Caribbean|magazine=People’s Favorite Magazine|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=[[w:Street & Smith|Street & Smith Corporation]]|date=10 February 1919|volume=XXIX|issue=4|section=chapter VI|page=97|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/PeoplesV29N0419190210/page/n102/mode/1up|column=2|oclc=645140894|passage=I had been studying the strange girl. {{...}} / "What kind '''fellow''' this Mary?" I asked him. / Johnny Gorai shook his beflowered head vigorously. At the same time a crafty gleam crept into his faded eyes. / "What for Johnny Gorai know 'em good '''fellow''' Mary?" he asked in the ''bêche de mer'' which passed with him for English. / "Don't lie to me," I said. "You know 'em this '''fellow''' woman—or you've heard of her. Who is she?"}}
# {{lb|en|by extension|often|humorous|or|ironic}} An animal or object.
#* {{RQ:Scott Canongate 2|volume=I|chapter=II|page=55|passage=In short, this '''fellow''' (laying his hand on his purse) who, thou knowest, father, was somewhat lank and low in condition when I set out four months since, is now as round and full as a six-weeks' porker.}}
#* {{RQ:Twain Huckleberry Finn|chapter=VII|pages=51–52|pageref=52|passage=So I took the gun and went up a piece into the woods and was hunting around for some birds, when I see a wild pig; hogs soon went wild in them bottoms after they had got away from the prairie farms. I shot this '''fellow''' and took him into camp.}}
# {{lb|en|archaic}}
## One of a [[pair#Noun|pair]] of things [[suit#Verb|suited]] to each other or [[use#Verb|used]] together; a [[counterpart#Noun|counterpart]], a [[mate#Noun|mate]].
##* {{RQ:Shakespeare Henry 5 Q1|act=IV|scene=viii|page=50|passage=Let me ſee thy gloue. Looke you, / This the '''fellovv''' of it. / It vvas I indeed you promiſed to ſtrike.}}
##* {{RQ:Defoe Crusoe|page=53|passage=I vvalk'd about on the Shore, {{...}} reflecting upon all my Comrades that vvere drovvn'd, {{...}} I never ſavv them aftervvards, or any Sign of them, except three of their Hats, one Cap, and tvvo Shoes that vvere not '''Fellovvs'''.}}
### Originally {{lb|en|obsolete}}, a person's [[partner#Noun|partner]] (of either [[sex#Noun|sex]]) in [[life#Noun|life]] or [[marriage]]; a [[spouse#Noun|spouse]]; also, the mate of an animal; now {{lb|en|dated}}, a person's male [[lover]] or partner; a [[boyfriend]]; a [[husband#Noun|husband]].
###* {{RQ:Pliny Holland Historie of the World|tome=1|book=VIII|chapter=Of Buls, Kine, and Oxen|page=224|passage=[N]ovv vvhen they be but heyfers of one year, or tvvo years at the moſt (vvhich is more tollerable) they are let goe to the '''fellovv''' and breed.}}
###* {{RQ:Shakespeare Tempest|act=III|scene=i|page=11|column=2|passage=I am your vvife, if you vvill marrie me; / If not, Ile die your maid: to be your '''fellovv''' / You may denie me, but Ile be your ſeruant / VVhether you vvill or no.}}
## {{lb|en|Australian Aboriginal}} {{alternative form of|en|fella|t={{non-gloss|used as a general {{glossary|intensifier}}}}}}
# {{lb|en|obsolete}}
## A [[colleague]] or partner.
##* {{RQ:Bacon Sylva Sylvarum|edition=3rd|century=III|chapter=Experiment Solitary Touching the Like Operations of Heat, and Time|page=76|para=294|passage=''Time'', and ''Heat'', are '''Fellovves''' in many Effects. ''Heat'' drieth Bodies, that doe eaſily expire; As Parchment, Leaues, Roots, Clay, &c. And, ſo doth ''Time'' or ''Age'' [[arefy|arefie]]; {{...}}}}
### {{lb|en|specifically|also|figuratively}} An [[associate#Noun|associate]] in the [[commission#Noun|commission]] of a [[crime]] or other [[wrongful]] [[act#Noun|act]]; an [[accomplice]].
###* {{RQ:Milton Comus|page=17|passage=For certaine / Either ſome one like us night founder'd here, / Or elſe ſome neighbour vvood man, or at worſt / Some roaving robber calling to his '''fellovvs'''.}}
## A [[close#Adjective|close]] companion or [[friend#Noun|friend]]; also, a companion or friend whom one [[eat#Verb|eats]] or [[drink#Verb|drinks]] with.
##* {{RQ:Coverdale Bible|Ecclesiasticus|13|4–5|folio=xliij|column=2|passage=If thou be for his profit, he vſeth [[thee|the]]: but yf thou haue nothinge, he ſhal forſake the. As longe as thou haſt eny thinge of thine owne, he ſhal be a good '''felowe''' with the: Yee he ſhal make the a bare man, and not be ſory for it.}}
##* {{RQ:Erasmus Udall Apophthegmes|chapter=To the Reader|page=8|passage=[T]ruly for the Engliſheman to bee offended with the admixtion of Latine, or the Latine manne to miſlike the [[powdering|poutheryng]] of Greke, appereth vnto me a moche like thing, as {{...}} one that drinketh ſingle Beere, ſhould be greued with his next '''feloe''', for drinking ale or wine.}}
## ''Followed by'' '''[[of]]''': one who [[participate#Verb|participates]] in an [[activity]]; a [[participant]].
##* {{RQ:Shakespeare Winter's Tale|act=III|scene=ii|page=286|column=2|passage=For behold me, / A '''Fellovv''' of the Royall Bed, vvhich ovve / A Moitie of the Throne: {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Milton Paradise Lost|book=I|lines=604–606|page=28|passage=[C]ruel his eye, but caſt / Signs of remorſe and paſſion to behold / The '''fellows''' of his crime, {{...}}|year=1873}}
## A [[man#Noun|man]] without [[good#Adjective|good]] [[breeding#Noun|breeding]] or of [[low#Adjective|lower]] [[social status]]; a [[common#Adjective|common]] or [[ignoble]] man; also, {{non-gloss|used as a [[polite]] term of address to such a person}}.
##* {{RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3|act=III|scene=ii|page=188|column=2|passage=Gramercie '''fellovv''': there, drinke that for me. ''Throvves him his Purſe.''}}
##* {{RQ:Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost Q1|act=IV|scene=i|page=29|passage=Thou '''fellovv''', a vvorde. / VVho gaue thee this letter?}}
## A person's [[servant]] or [[slave#Noun|slave]].
##* {{RQ:Sidney Arcadia|chapter=19|page=125|passage=But before al of them were assembled to begin their sports, there came a '''fellow''', who being out of breath (or seeming so to be for haste) with humble [[hastiness|hastines]] told ''Basilius'', that his Mistres, the Lady ''Cecropia'', had sent him to excuse the mischance of her beastes ranging in that dãgerous sort, being happened by the folly of the keeper; {{...}}}}
## {{lb|en|derogatory}} A [[worthless]] person; a [[churl]], a [[knave]]; also, {{non-gloss|used as a term of address to a person [[regard#Verb|regarded]] as such}}.
##* {{RQ:Coverdale Bible|Micah|2|11|folio=xcij|verso=1|column=2|passage=Iff I were a fleſhly '''felowe''', and a preacher of lyes and tolde them that they might ſyt [[bibbing|bebbinge]] and [[bowling|bollynge]], and be droncken: O that were a prophet for this people.}}
##* {{RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3 Q1|act=V|scene=vi|page=100|passage=And vvho doth lead them but a paltrey '''fellovv'''? / Long kept in Brittaine at our mothers coſt, / A milkeſopt, one that neuer in his life / Felt ſo much colde as ouer ſhooes in ſnovv: {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:South Twelve Sermons|volume=I|chapter=A Sermon Preached upon [[w:Gospel of John|John]] vii. 17.|year=1679|page=230|passage='''Fellovvs''' that ſet up for ''Meſſias's'', only upon their ovvn Heads, vvithout pretending to any Thing ſingular or miraculous, but ''Impudence'', and ''Impoſture''.}}
##* {{RQ:Pope Essay on Man|epistle=IV|lines=191–193|page=71|passage=You'll find, if once the Monarch acts the Monk, / Or Cobler-like, the Parſon vvill be drunk, / VVorth makes the man, and VVant of it the '''Fellovv'''; {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Fielding Tom Jones|volume=VI|book=XVII|chapter=The Generous and Grateful Behaviour of Mrs. Miller|page=93|passage={{...}} I knovv he hath, or you, vvhom I knovv to be all Goodneſs and Honour, vvould not, after the many kind and tender Things I have heard you ſay of this poor helpleſs Child, have ſo diſdainfully called him '''Fellovv'''.}}
##* {{RQ:Disraeli Vivian Grey|volume=III|chapter=XIII|page=264|passage="This is some vile conspiracy of your own, '''fellow'''," said de Bœffleurs; "marked cards indeed! a pretty tale, forsooth! The Ministers of a first-rate power playing with marked cards!{{nb...}}"}}
##* {{RQ:Dickens Pickwick Papers|chapter=In which is Given a Faithful Portraiture of Two Distinguished Persons;{{nb...|and an Accurate Description of a Public Breakfast in Their House and Grounds: Which Public Breakfast, Leads to the Recognition of an Old Acquaintance, and the Commencement of Another Chapter.}}|page=150|passage="Sir," replied Mr. Pickwick in the same tone, "It is not half the insult to you, that your appearance in my presence in a green velvet jacket, with a two-inch tail, would be to me." / "Sir," said Mr. Tupman, "you're a '''fellow'''." / "Sir," said Mr. Pickwick, "you're another!"}}
## {{lb|en|UK|slang}} {{synonym of|en|schoolmate|t=a [[student]] at the same [[school#Noun|school]]}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Stephen Fry|chapter=III|title=[[:w:The Liar (novel)|The Liar]]|location=London|publisher=[[w:Heinemann (publisher)|William Heinemann]]|year=1991|page=26|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/liar0000frys_j2c4/page/26/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-434-27191-7|passage=Adrian thought it worth while to try out his new slang. ‘I say, you '''fellows''', here's a rum go. Old Biffo was jolly odd this morning. He gave me a lot of pi-jaw about slacking and then invited me to tea. No rotting! He did really.’}}
## {{lb|en|chiefly|Southern US|derogatory}} A [[black man]].

=====Usage notes=====
* As regards sense 6 (“male person”), in [[North America]] the word is less likely to be used in comparison to other words that have the same purpose, such as {{m|en|boy}}, {{m|en|chap}} or {{m|en|guy}}.
* As regards sense 7 (“an individual or person regardless of gender”), where the word is used for a [[female#Adjective|female]] person, it may allude to the person having some [[masculine#Adjective|masculine]] [[attribute#Noun|attributes]].

=====Derived terms=====
{{col3|en
|bedfellow|blackfellow|old fellow
|fella
|fellah
|feller|congressional fellow|shallow fellow
|fellow citizen
|fellow-commoner
|fellowess
|fellow feeling
|fellowless
|fellowlike
|fellowly
|fellow man
|fellowship
|[[fellowshipping]] {{qualifier|noun}}
|fellow-travel
|[[fellow traveler]], [[fellow traveller]]
|goodfellow
|hail-fellow-well-met
|time-fellow
|unfellow
|unfellowship
|yokefellow
|fellow me lad|fellow-feeling|fellow-me-lad|fellow-traveller|hail fellow well met|hail-fellow|me fellow|my dear fellow|my fellow Americans|race-fellow|visiting fellow
}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top-also|companion; comrade|companion|comrade}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|друга́р|m}}, {{t+|bg|компаньо́н|m}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|伴侶|tr=bànlǚ}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|kolega|m}}, {{t+|cs|kamarád|m}}, {{t+|cs|spolupracovník|m}}
* Egyptian: {{t-egy|snnw|h=sn-n:nw-w-Z1-Z1}}
* Estonian: {{t+|et|kaaslane}}, {{t|et|kompanjon}}, {{t|et|seltsimees}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|toveri}}
* French: {{t+|fr|ami|m}}, {{t+|fr|camarade}}
* German: {{t+|de|Gefährte|m}}, {{t+|de|Kamerad|m}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|barát}}, {{t+|hu|társ}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|amico}}, {{t+|it|camerata|m}}, {{t+|it|compagno}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|仲間|tr=なかま, nakama}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|동반자(同伴者)}}
* Latin: {{t+|la|socius|m}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|дру́гар|m}}
* Middle English: {{t|enm|felawe}}
* Ottoman Turkish: {{t|ota|یولداش|tr=yoldaş}}, {{t|ota|رفیق|tr=refik}}, {{t|ota|قولداش|tr=koldaş}}, {{t|ota|آیاقداش|tr=ayakdaş}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|kamrat|m}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|camarada|m|f}}, {{t+|pt|colega|m|f}}, {{t+|pt|companheiro|m}}, {{t+|pt|parceiro|m}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|компаньо́н|m}}, {{t+|ru|компаньо́нка|f}}, {{t+|ru|това́рищ|m}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|amigo|m}}, {{t+|es|compañero|m}}
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{{trans-top|animal which is a member of a breed or species, or a flock, herd, etc.}}
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{{trans-top|object which is associated with another object}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kaveri}}
* French: {{t+|fr|paire|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|Paar|n}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|pár|s}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|leathcheann|m}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|па́ра|f}} {{qualifier|in a set of two objects}}
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{{trans-top|person or thing comparable in characteristics with another person or thing}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|toveri}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|leathcheann|m}}
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{{trans-top|person with abilities, achievements, skills, etc., equal to those of another person; thing with characteristics, worth, etc., equal to those of another thing}}
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{{trans-top|one in the same condition, or situation of need, as another}}
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{{trans-top|equal in character, power, rank, etc.}}
* French: {{t+|fr|congénère|m}}
* Middle English: {{t|enm|felawe}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|ро́вня|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|congénere}}
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{{trans-top|person living at the same time, or about the same age as another}}
* French: {{t+|fr|contemporain|m}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|рове́сник|m}} {{qualifier|same age}}, {{t+|ru|совреме́нник|m}} {{qualifier|same time}}
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{{trans-top|one of a group of academics who make up a college or similar educational institution; senior member of a college or similar educational institution involved in teaching, research, and management of the institution}}
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{{trans-top|honorary title bestowed by a college or university upon a distinguished person}}
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{{trans-top|(senior) member of a learned or professional society}}
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{{trans-top|senior member of an Inn of Court}}
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{{trans-top|scholar appointed to a fellowship}}
* French: {{t+|fr|boursier|m}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|ösztöndíjas|s}}
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{{trans-top|physician undergoing a fellowship after having completed a residency}}
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{{trans-top|member of a college or university who manages its business interests}}
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{{trans-top|senior researcher or technician in a corporation, especially one engaged in research and development}}
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{{trans-top|(''informal'') male person; ''used as a familiar term of address to a man''}}<!--Add only informal terms-->
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|傢伙|tr=jiāhuǒ}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|člověk|m}}, {{t+|cs|chlap|m}}, {{t|cs|chlapík|m}}, {{t+|cs|chlápek|m}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|ulo}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kaveri}}
* French: {{t+|fr|bougre|m}} {{qualifier|Louisiana}}, {{t+|fr|gars|m}}, {{t+|fr|mec}} {{qualifier|France}}, {{t+|fr|type|m}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|hapsi}}, {{t+|hu|pasas}}, {{t+|hu|pasi}}, {{t+|hu|srác|s}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|individuo}}, {{t+|it|tipo}}, {{t+|it|tizio|m}}, {{t+|it|uomo}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|やつ|tr=yatsu}}, {{t+|ja|野郎|tr=やろう, yarō}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|녀석}}
* Louisiana Creole French: {{t|lou|boug}}, {{t|lou|nèg}}, {{t|lou|gayar}}
* Macedonian: {{t+|mk|при́јател|m}}, {{t+|mk|чо́век|m}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|autaia}}, {{t|mi|korokē}}, {{t|mi|nauhea}}, {{t|mi|nauwhea}}, {{t|mi|tāhae}}, {{t|mi|tāhake}}, {{t|mi|tawhiti}}, {{t|mi|tuatangata}}
* Middle English: {{t|enm|felawe}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|gość|m}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|indivíduo|m}}, {{t+|pt|pessoa|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|чува́к|m|lit=dude}}, {{t+|ru|ма́лый|m}}, {{t+|ru|мужи́к|m}}, {{t+|ru|па́рень|m}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|hombre|m}}, {{t+|es|muchacho|m}}, {{t+|es|tipo|m}}
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{{trans-see|individual or person regardless of gender|individual|person}}
{{trans-see|one of a pair of things suited to each other or used together|counterpart|mate}}
{{trans-see|person’s male lover or partner|boyfriend|husband}}

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* French: {{t+check|fr|gars}}, {{t+check|fr|bonhomme}}
* German: {{t+check|de|Kumpel|m}}, {{t+check|de|Kamerad|m}}, {{t+check|de|Gefährte|m}}
* Serbo-Croatian: {{t+check|sh|kolega|m}}, {{t+check|sh|suradnik|m}}, {{t+check|sh|drug|m}}
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===Etymology 2===
From {{inh|en|enm|felauen}}, {{m|enm|felow|t=to join (someone) in companionship, friendship, partnership, etc.}}{{nb...|felaghen, felewen, velaʒen|otherforms=1}},<ref>{{R:MED Online|entry=
fē̆lauen|pos=v|id=MED15497}}</ref> from {{m|enm|felowe}}, {{m|enm|felau}}, {{m|enm|felawe|pos=noun}}: see [[#Etymology 1|etymology 1]].<ref>{{R:OED Online|pos=v|id=69095|date=March 2022}}</ref>

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|transitive}}
## {{lb|en|archaic}} To [[address#Verb|address]] (someone) as "[[fellow#Noun|fellow]]", especially in an [[insulting#Adjective|insulting]] [[manner]] ''(see noun sense 10.6)''.
##* {{RQ:Fielding Amelia|volume=III|chapter=Which Inclines Rather to Satir than Panegyric|page=161|passage='Don't '''Fellovv''' me,' ſaid the Bailiff, 'I am as good a Fellovv as yourſelf, I believe, tho' you have that Ribbond in your Hat there.'}}
##* {{RQ:Bulwer-Lytton Ernest Maltravers|volume=II|chapter=IX|page=108|passage="I dare say—I dare day—my good fellow." / "'''Fellow''' not me—I won't be '''fellowed''' now; I say I have the best of it here—man to man—I am your match."}}
## {{lb|en|chiefly|passive|poetic|archaic}} To [[equal#Verb|equal]] (someone or something); also, to [[cause#Verb|cause]] or [[find#Verb|find]] someone or something to be [[equal#Adjective|equal]] to (some other [[person#Noun|person]] or [[thing]]).
##* {{RQ:Hall Select Thoughts|chapter=C|pages=294–295|pageref=295|passage=For my part, let me rather affect and applaud the harmleſs humor of that miſ-called Saint, vvho in an indiſcreet humility called every VVoolf his brother, and every Sheep, yea, every Ant his ſiſter, '''fellovving''' himſelf vvith every thing that had life in it, as vvell as himſelf; {{...}}}}
## {{lb|en|obsolete}}
### To [[pair#Verb|pair]] or [[suit#Verb|suit]] (someone or something) with some other person or thing; also, to pair or suit someone or something with (some other person or thing); to [[arrange]] (things) in [[pair#Noun|pairs]].
### {{lb|en|also|reflexive}} ''Followed by'' '''[[to]]''' ''or'' '''[[with]]''': to [[associate#Verb|associate]] or [[join#Verb|join]] (oneself, someone, or something) with some other person or thing in [[companionship]] or a [[partnership]].
###* {{RQ:Thomas Smith De Republica Anglorum|chapter=The First Sort or Beginning of an House or Familie Called {{lang|grc|οἰκονομία}}|pages=12–13|pageref=12|passage=[A] man by nature is rather deſirous to '''fellow''' him ſelfe to another and ſo to liue in couple, than to adherd{{sic|adhere?}} himſelfe with many.}}
### {{lb|en|chiefly|passive|sometimes|reflexive}} ''Followed by'' '''to''' or '''with''': to cause or [[portray]] (someone or something) to be equal to some other person or thing.
### {{lb|en|poetic}} To associate or [[go#Verb|go]] together with (someone or something); to [[become]] a [[partner#Noun|partner]] of (someone or something).
###* {{RQ:Shakespeare Winter's Tale|act=I|scene=ii|page=278|column=2|passage=Affection? thy Intention ſtabs the Center. / Thou do'ſt make poſſible things not ſo held, / Communicat'ſt vvith Dreames (hovv can this be?) / VVith vvhat's vnreall: thou coactiue art, / And '''fellow'ſt''' nothing.|translation=Affection! Your intention stabs the heart. / You do make possible things not so held, / Communicate with dreams (how can this be?). / You are [[coactive]] with what's unreal / And '''associate''' with nothing.}}
###* {{quote-book|en|author=I[oseph] F[letcher]|chapter=The Blessed Man, Setting-forth Mans Felicitie, in that His Regeneration is Procured|title=The Historie of the Perfect-Cursed-Blessed Man:{{nb...|Setting forth Mans Excellencie by His Generation, Miserie [by his] Degeneration, Felicitie [by his] Regeneration.}}|location=London|publisher={{...|Printed by}} M[iles] Flesher,{{nb...|and are to be sold at the signe of the Greyhound in Pauls Church-yard.}}|year=1628|page=57|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/historieofperfec00flet/page/57/mode/1up|oclc=1049026426|passage=Some fevv there vvere left all to follovv Him: / Eſteeming all to baſe to '''fellovv''' Him: / And joyfully receiv'd ''Him'' as their ''Lord'', / Deriving their ſalvation from his ''VVord'', {{...}}}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive|poetic|obsolete}} ''Followed by'' '''with''': to associate or join with a person or thing in companionship or a partnership.
#* {{RQ:Dekker Wonder|page=54|passage=VVhere is the gentleman? 't vvas for his ſake / I vvould have lien vvith you, vvo'd it vvere as lavvfull to '''fellovv''' nights vvith him.}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|to address (someone) as “fellow”, especially in an insulting manner}}
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{{trans-top|to equal (someone or something); to cause or find someone or something to be equal to (some other person or thing)}}
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===References===
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===Further reading===
* {{pedia}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=efllow|elf owl}}

{{C|en|People}}

==Spanish==

===Noun===
{{es-noun|mfbysense}}

# {{lb|es|education}} {{l|en|fellow}}