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fellows

noun US /ˈfeloʊz/

plural of “fellow” — a boy or man

An inflected form of fellow · plural.

How often you will meet it

Rank 1,415 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 13,013 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.006% of every word in the library.

What it means

noun

  1. a boy or man also: chap, feller, fella, lad, gent, blighter that chap is your hostthere's a fellow at the door
  2. a friend who is frequently in the company of another also: companion, comrade, familiar, associate drinking companionscomrades in arms
  3. 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
  4. one of a pair also: mate he lost the mate to his shoeone eye was blue but its fellow was brown
  5. a member of a learned society he was elected a fellow of the American Physiological Association
  6. an informal form of address for a man also: dude, buster Say, fellow, what are you doing?Hey buster, what's up?

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary · Princeton WordNet 3.1

fellows 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.

  • It is better not to be different from one’s fellows.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1

  • Wife, where be all these blades, I wonder, Pennoned fine fellows, so strong, so gay?

    John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1

  • Such fellows are always cowards; the moment they saw one of their accomplices mortally wounded, they fled.

    An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 · Georg Ebers · Chapter 1

  • It did not enter his mind that anything he had done could alter his standing with the "fellows."

    The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1

  • The booming basses and baritones of the big fellows made him shiver with a curious bitter-sweet sensation never experienced before.

    The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1

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