People and roles
Synonyms for fellow
Synonyms for fellow: colleague, dude, boyfriend, chap and mate. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 5 synonyms for fellow
Interchangeable with fellow, one per sense
Audited under fellow's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one fellow carries in that sense.
- colleaguenoun, in the sense "a person who is member of one's class or profession"
- dudenoun, in the sense "an informal form of address for a man"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name fellow as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
The first group is filed under fellow's own senses. The second reach fellow from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
a person who is member of one's class or profession
He sent e-mail to his fellow hackers.
fellow in 2 more sentences, same sense
- She stayed late to help a fellow nurse finish the overnight charts.
- The professor introduced him to a fellow researcher visiting from Berlin.
How it behaves: Fellow usually appears as an attributive adjective directly before a noun naming a shared role or group, as in fellow hackers or fellow nurse, in a slightly formal register.
The true synonym
colleague
Same sentence, swapped: He sent e-mail to his colleague hackers.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for fellow in the sentence quoted.
- familiar
- boyfriend
- member
Opposites, in this sense
outsider and stranger reverse fellow as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of fellow takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- outsider
- stranger
an informal form of address for a man
Say, fellow, what are you doing?
fellow in 2 more sentences, same sense
- Hand me that wrench, fellow, before the whole shelf comes down on us.
- The old man on the corner nodded and said, morning, fellow, fine day for walking.
How it behaves: In this address sense, fellow is used vocatively, standing alone or set off by commas at the start or middle of a sentence, in casual spoken registers.
The true synonym
dude
Same sentence, swapped: Say, dude, what are you doing?
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- familiar
- prince
- hero
Where fellow turns up in the game
fellow is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play fellow
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so fellow reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other people and roles words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. fellow carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.