Antonyms for fellows


Grammar : Noun
Spell : fel-oh
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɛl oʊ


Definition of fellows

Origin :
  • c.1200, from Old English feolaga "fellow, partner," from Old Norse felagi, from fe "money" (see fee) + verbal base denoting "lay" (see lay (v.)). Sense is of "one who puts down money with another in a joint venture." Used familiarly since mid-15c. for "man, male person," but not etymologically masculine.
  • University senses (mid-15c.), corresponding to Latin socius) evolved from notion of "one of the corporation who constitute a college" and who are paid from its revenues. First record of fellow-traveler in sense of "one who sympathizes with the Communist movement but is not a party member," is from 1936, translating Russian poputchik. The literal sense is attested in English from 1610s.
  • noun male or female colleague, friend
Example sentences :
  • His name was instantly passed on by the fugitive to his fellows as a "safe" man.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • Why, man, with you at my back I'd laugh at twenty fellows like these.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • Scottie, you fellows, even when you had Allister to lead you, couldn't get off scot-free from Dozier.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • Because they are a low set of fellows with whom I have nothing in common.
  • Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder
  • God has given me gifts to use for my fellows, and use them I must till he, not man, stops me.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • He could make the fellows in these saloons roar with laughter.
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
  • He had not grown vicious, as have so many of his fellows among the sons of the rich.
  • Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
  • The girl held herself rigidly from any personal intimacy with her fellows.
  • Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
  • Some of the fellows have crushes on girls and get over them.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • I caught one of these fellows quizzing me through an eye-glass.
  • Extract from : « Sketches from Memory » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Synonyms for fellows

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