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fellow

fellow

97 6.8
A person given a special academic title for important work
  • noun
  • /ˈfɛloʊ/
  • Formal
translation icon : miembro
  • I've just been accepted as a fellow at the Karen Horney Institute.
  • a research fellow
  • a postdoctoral fellow
  • a senior fellow

Tess is also a Mitchell Senior Leadership Fellow here at the School.

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Examples

  • ADAM SEGAL is Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

    Academic text (2008)
  • I'm Alice Rivlin and I'm a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

  • I am a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

  • This was a Toshiba research fellow, not really a student.

  • Dr. Kelley was a National Fellow with the Center for Engineering and Technology Education.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Tess is also a Mitchell Senior Leadership Fellow here at the School.

  • Stephen Biddle is a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

    Academic text (2008)
  • GIBSON is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of New South Wales Art and Design Faculty.

    Academic text (2017)
  • We proudly bestow this Ambedkar Award to Dr. Suraj Yengde, postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.

  • I am a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

Synonyms

fellow member
vsfellow
6 2.7

A person who belongs to the same group or club as another

is an awarded distinction marking special honor rather than ordinary group belonging
academician
vsfellow
  • Formal
4 8.1

A person who teaches or does research at a university

is awarded by learned societies as a mark of distinction rather than general scholar status

Antonyms

4 3.4

Someone who does not belong to a club or group

Compounds

A person who works with you in the same company or team

A person who belongs to the same group or club as another

5 3.2

A person who travels with you

fellow traveler
  • Archaic
3 8.2

A person who supports a political group, often Communists, without joining it

A feeling of sympathy and understanding for someone who is sad or in trouble

odd fellow
  • Informal
1 6.8

A person who acts in a way people think is strange

1 4.4

A graduate student who leads classes and helps a professor

class fellow
  • Indian
2.7

A person who is in the same class at school or university as you

hail-fellow
  • Archaic
9.9

A person who is warm and friendly and easy to talk to

9.9

Being friendly and cheerful when meeting people, sometimes too familiar

How Prestigious

emeritus
  • Formal
30 8.9
fellow
  • Formal
97 6.8
senior
800 2.9
member
1.4

Surface Forms

fellow singular
fellows plural

Etymology

Fellow comes from félagi ('one who shares or property') and so meant a member of a group. That's why a fellow can be an honored member of a college or society — someone who belongs to that special group.