fellow
a boy or man
How often you will meet it
Rank 464 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 44,551 times across 175,112 chapters — 0.021% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- a boy or man also: chap, feller, fella, lad, gent, blighter that chap is your hostthere's a fellow at the door
- a friend who is frequently in the company of another also: companion, comrade, familiar, associate drinking companionscomrades in arms
- a person who is member of one's class or profession also: colleague, confrere the surgeon consulted his colleagueshe sent e-mail to his fellow hackers
- one of a pair also: mate he lost the mate to his shoeone eye was blue but its fellow was brown
- a member of a learned society he was elected a fellow of the American Physiological Association
- an informal form of address for a man also: dude, buster Say, fellow, what are you doing?Hey buster, what's up?
fellow in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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It wasn't enough I suppose, as he called another fellow.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1
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The fellow is an absolute outsider, anyone can see that.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles · Agatha Christie · Chapter 1
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He turned to Hallward and said, “My dear fellow, I have just remembered.”
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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And "Why, for cat's sake, can't you tell a fellow what's up your sleeve?"
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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Thou shalt lie in a bed stuffed with turtle's feathers; swoon in perfumed linen, like the fellow was smothered in roses.
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1