Fellow vs. Neighbor — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fellow and Neighbor
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Fellow
A fellow is a broad concept whose exact meaning depends on context. In learned or professional societies, it refers to a privileged member who is specially elected in recognition of their work and achievements.
Neighbor
One who lives near or next to another.
Fellow
A man or boy.
Neighbor
A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another.
Fellow
(Informal) A boyfriend.
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Neighbor
A fellow human.
Fellow
A comrade or associate.
Neighbor
Used as a form of familiar address.
Fellow
A person of equal rank, position, or background; a peer.
Neighbor
To lie close to or border directly on.
Fellow
One of a pair; a mate
Found the lost shoe and its fellow.
Neighbor
To live or be situated close by.
Fellow
A member of a learned society or professional organization.
Neighbor
Situated or living near another
A neighbor state.
Fellow
A graduate student appointed to a position granting financial aid and providing for further study.
Neighbor
Standard spelling of neighbour
Fellow
A physician who enters a training program in a medical specialty after completing residency, usually in a hospital or academic setting.
Neighbor
Standard spelling of neighbour
Fellow
An incorporated senior member of certain colleges and universities.
Neighbor
A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off.
Masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbors.
Fellow
A member of the governing body of certain colleges and universities.
Neighbor
One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
BuckinghamNo more shall be the neighbor to my counsel.
Fellow
(Archaic) A man or boy held in low regard.
Neighbor
One entitled to, or exhibiting, neighborly kindness; hence, one of the human race; a fellow being.
Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves?
The gospel allows no such term as "stranger;" makes every man my neighbor.
Fellow
Being of the same kind, group, occupation, society, or locality; having in common certain characteristics or interests
Fellow workers.
Neighbor
Near to another; adjoining; adjacent; next; neighboring.
Fellow
A companion; a comrade.
Neighbor
To adjoin; to border on; to be near to.
Leisurely ascending hills that neighbor the shore.
Fellow
An animal which is a member of a breed or species, or a flock, herd, etc.
Neighbor
To associate intimately with.
Fellow
An object which is associated with another object; especially, as part of a set.
Neighbor
To dwell in the vicinity; to be a neighbor, or in the neighborhood; to be near.
A copse that neighbors by.
Fellow
A person or thing comparable in characteristics with another person or thing; especially, as belonging to the same class or group.
My fellow Americans
Rebecca and her fellow workers are to go on strike.
Neighbor
A person who lives (or is located) near another
Fellow
(chiefly in the negative) A person with abilities, achievements, skills, etc., equal to those of another person; a thing with characteristics, worth, etc., equal to those of another thing.
To be without fellow
To have no fellows
Neighbor
A nearby object of the same kind;
Fort Worth is a neighbor of Dallas
What is the closest neighbor to the Earth?
Fellow
One in the same condition, or situation of need, as another.
Neighbor
Live or be located as a neighbor;
The neighboring house
Fellow
Often in the form Fellow: academic senses.
Neighbor
Be located near or adjacent to;
Pakistan neighbors India
Fellow
Originally, one of a group of academics who make up a college or similar educational institution; now, a senior member of a college or similar educational institution involved in teaching, research, and management of the institution.
Neighbor
Situated near one another;
Neighbor states
Fellow
An honorary title bestowed by a college or university upon a distinguished person (often an alumna or alumnus).
Fellow
A (senior) member of a learned or professional society.
A Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellow
A scholar appointed to a fellowship, that is, a paid academic position held for a certain period which usually requires the scholar to conduct research.
Fellow
A physician undergoing a fellowship (supervised subspecialty medical training) after having completed a residency (specialty training program).
Fellow
(US) A member of a college or university who manages its business interests.
Fellow
(US) A senior researcher or technician in a corporation, especially one engaged in research and development.
Fellow
(informal) A male person; a bloke, a chap, a guy, a man; also, preceded by a modifying word, sometimes with a sense of mild reproach: used as a familiar term of address to a man.
My dear fellow
Old fellow
Fellow
(rare) Usually qualified by an adjective or used in the plural: an individual or person regardless of gender.
Fellow
An animal or object.
Fellow
(archaic)
Fellow
One of a pair of things suited to each other or used together; a counterpart, a mate.
Fellow
(Australian Aboriginal) fella
Fellow
(obsolete)
Fellow
A colleague or partner.
Fellow
A close companion or friend; also, a companion or friend whom one eats or drinks with.
Fellow
Followed by of: one who participates in an activity; a participant.
Fellow
A man without good breeding or of lower social status; a common or ignoble man; also, used as a polite term of address to such a person.
Fellow
A person's servant or slave.
Fellow
(derogatory) A worthless person; a churl, a knave; also, used as a term of address to a person regarded as such.
Fellow
Synonym of schoolmate
Fellow
A black man.
Fellow
(transitive)
Fellow
(archaic) To address (someone) as "fellow", especially in an insulting manner (see noun sense 10.6).
Fellow
To equal (someone or something); also, to cause or find someone or something to be equal to (some other person or thing).
Fellow
(obsolete)
Fellow
Followed by with: to associate or join with a person or thing in companionship or a partnership.
Fellow
A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer.
The fellows of his crime.
We are fellows still,Serving alike in sorrow.
That enormous engine was flanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude.
Fellow
A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man.
Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow.
Fellow
An equal in power, rank, character, etc.
It is impossible that ever RomeShould breed thy fellow.
Fellow
One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate; the male.
When they be but heifers of one year, . . . they are let go to the fellow and breed.
This was my glove; here is the fellow of it.
Fellow
A person; an individual.
She seemed to be a good sort of fellow.
Fellow
In the English universities, a scholar who is appointed to a foundation called a fellowship, which gives a title to certain perquisites and privileges.
Fellow
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.
Fellow
A member of a literary or scientific society; as, a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Were the great duke himself here, and would lift upMy head to fellow pomp amongst his nobles.
Fellow
To suit with; to pair with; to match.
Fellow
A boy or man;
That chap is your host
There's a fellow at the door
He's a likable cuss
Fellow
A person who is frequently in the company of another;
Drinking companions
Comrades in arms
Fellow
A person who is member of your class or profession;
The surgeon consulted his colleagues
He sent e-mail to his fellow hackers
Fellow
An informal form of address for a man;
Say, fellow, what are you doing?
Hey buster, what's up?
Fellow
A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman;
If I'd known he was her boyfriend I wouldn't have asked
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