Fellow

n. [O. Eng. felawe, A-S. felawe, from feli-gean, fyligean, fyligan, to follow; Icel. félagi, Dan. fælle.] 1. One who follows; an adherent; a companion; a comrade; an associate; a sharer. “The fellows of his crime.” Milton. We are fellows still, Serving alike in sorrow. Shak. 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, or the like. It is impossible that ever Rome Should breed thy fellow. Shak. That enormous engine was flanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude. Gibbon. 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. One of the associates in an English college, admitted to share in its revenues; one who is appointed to a foundation called a fellowship, which gives a title to certain immunities; a member of a literary or scientific society or corporation.
7. One of the trustees of a college. [U. S.]

Fellow is often used in composition, indicating an associate, or sometimes equality; as, fellow-councilor, fellow-student, fellow-servant, fellow-maiden. The most of these are self-explaining. Were the great duke himself here, and would lift up My head to fellow-pomp amongst his nobles. Ford.