The original sense of this word was business-partner, but by the fourteenth century it also had the meaning of companion in a more general sense. It became the usual way of addressing a male servant, and at first would have been thought to be no more...

As an element other than the headword in a vocative group, ‘fellow’ means something like ‘similar to me, the speaker’. It occurs especially when a group of people are being addressed. Thus a preacher in George Silverman’s...

(1) A senior member of an Oxford or Cambridge college who has a voice in the running of the college. Fellows teach and give tutorials to undergraduates. Before the University Test Act of 1871, Fellows had to be unmarried. (2) A member of a learned or...

An individual, holding a post in an institution of higher education for a specific period of time, who is employed to investigate a particular topic or range of topics. Many of these posts are sponsored by bodies outside the...

A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. The term is most often used in an academic context: a fellow is (at least in theory) part of an elite group of learned people who work together as peers in the pursuit of knowledge....