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English Dictionary: fellow by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fellow
n
  1. a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke"
    Synonym(s): chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent, blighter, cuss, bloke
  2. a friend who is frequently in the company of another; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms"
    Synonym(s): companion, comrade, fellow, familiar, associate
  3. a person who is member of one's class or profession; "the surgeon consulted his colleagues"; "he sent e-mail to his fellow hackers"
    Synonym(s): colleague, confrere, fellow
  4. one of a pair; "he lost the mate to his shoe"; "one eye was blue but its fellow was brown"
    Synonym(s): mate, fellow
  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; "Say, fellow, what are you doing?"; "Hey buster, what's up?"
    Synonym(s): fellow, dude, buster
  7. a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman; "if I'd known he was her boyfriend I wouldn't have asked"
    Synonym(s): boyfriend, fellow, beau, swain, young man
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fellow \Fel"low\, n. [OE. felawe, felaghe, Icel. f[c7]lagi, fr.
      f[c7]lag companionship, prop., a laying together of property;
      f[c7] property + lag a laying, pl. l[94]g law, akin to liggja
      to lie. See {Fee}, and {Law}, {Lie} to be low.]
      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.
  
      Note: 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.
  
      Note: 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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fellow \Fel"low\, v. t.
      To suit with; to pair with; to match. [Obs.] --Shak.
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