fellowとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛləʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛloʊ/
• (くだけた用法, 一般的ではない用法) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛlə/
• 韻: -ɛləʊ
• ハイフネーション: fel‧low

名詞

fellow (複数形 fellows)

1. (obsolete) A colleague or partner.
2. (archaic) A companion; a comrade.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     Cruel his eye, but cast
     Signs of remorse and passion to behold
     The fellows of his crime

   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene ii], page 90, column 1:

     [W]e are Fellowes ſtill, / Seruing alike in ſorrow: [...]

   • 1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume IV

     That enormous engine was flanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude.

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0147:

     Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.

3. A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man.
   • 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], OCLC 960856019:

     Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow.

4. An equal in power, rank, character, etc.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iii]:

     It is impossible that ever Rome
     Should breed thy fellow.

5. One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate.
   • 1601, Philemon Holland, The Historie of the World, commonly called the Naturall Historie (originally by Pliny the Elder)

     When they be but heifers of one year, […] they are let goe to the fellow and breed.

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene viii]:

     This was my glove; here is the fellow of it.

6. (attributive) A person with common characteristics, being of the same kind, or in the same group.

   Roger and his fellow workers are to go on strike.

   my fellow Americans

   • 1888, James Francis Hogan, The Irish in Australia

     writing a history of my fellow-countrymen in Australasia

   • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:

     My fellow passengers are a mixture of people returning from a day out in the capital, locals doing short hops, and a few (like me) heading farther afield.

7. (colloquial) A male person; a man.
   • 1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Strategist”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], OCLC 1263167, page 85:

     "There'll be about ten girls," speculated Rollo, as he drove to the function, "and I suppose four fellows, unless the Wrotsleys bring their cousin, which Heaven forbid. That would mean Jack and me agains three of them."

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 7, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     “A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. […]”

9. (rare) A person; an individual, male or female.
   • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter 37, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, OCLC 3359935, page 287:

     She seemed to be a good sort of fellow.

10. (Britain slang, obsolete) Synonym of schoolmate: a student at the same school.
    • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 37:

      Adrian thought it worth while to try out his new slang. ‘I say, you fellows, here's a rum go. Old Biffo was jolly odd this morning. He gave me a lot of pi-jaw about slacking and then invited me to tea. No rotting! He did really.’

11. A rank or title in the professional world, usually given as "Fellow".
    1. In the English universities, a scholar who is appointed to a foundation called a fellowship, which gives a title to certain perquisites and privileges.
    2. In an American college or university, a member of the corporation which manages its business interests; also, a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the foundation.
    3. A member of a literary or scientific society

       a Fellow of the Royal Society

    4. The most senior rank or title one can achieve on a technical career in certain companies (though some Fellows also hold business titles such as Vice President または Chief Technology Officer). This is typically found in large corporations in research and development-intensive industries (IBM または Sun Microsystems in information technology, かつ Boston Scientific in Medical Devices for example). They appoint a small number of senior scientists and engineers as Fellows.
    5. In the US and Canada, a physician who is undergoing a supervised, sub-specialty medical training (fellowship) after completing a specialty training program (residency).
12. (Aboriginal English) Used as a general intensifier
    • 1991, Jimmy Chi, Bran Nue Dae, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 137:

      This fella song all about the Aboriginal people, coloured people, black people longa Australia.

使用する際の注意点

In North America, fellow is less likely to be used for a man in general in comparison to other words that have the same purpose. Nevertheless, it is still used by some. In addition, it has a good bit of use as an academic or medical title or membership.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:associate
• See also Thesaurus:man

派生語

接頭辞

fellow-

1. 接頭辞ed 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?

同意語

• co-
• even-

アナグラム

• elf owl