n.
- a man or boy.
- a person in the same position or otherwise associated with another.
▸a thing of the same kind as or otherwise associated with another.
- a member of a learned society.
▸Brit. an incorporated senior member of a college.
▸
(also research fellow)
an elected graduate receiving a stipend for a period of research.
▸a member of the governing body in some universities.
adj.
sharing a particular activity, quality, or condition:
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a fellow sufferer.
Etymology
OE fēolaga ‘a colleague’ (lit. ‘one who lays down money in a joint enterprise’), from ON félagi, from fé ‘property, money’ + the Gmc base of lay1.
