English

Prefix

fellow-

1. Prefixed to a noun to say that someone shares the same condition as oneself as represented by the noun.

   fellow-worker;  fellow-sufferer;  fellow-teacher;  fellow-chairwoman;  fellow-Scotsman‎

   His call for action was supported by the majority of his fellow-students at the meeting.‎

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:

     The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?

Synonyms

• co-
• even-