Fellows

Distinguished academic appointees

Fellows often refers to members of a group or society who hold a specific rank or title, such as fellows of academic institutions or professional organizations.

Historically, the term was used in guilds to denote full members with voting rights.

In academia, fellows may receive stipends or grants for research, as in a research fellow at Oxford.

Fellows Auctioneers, established in 1876, is a British auction house specializing in jewelry, watches, and antiques.

Fellows, California is a small oil town named after Charles A.

Fellows, a prominent figure in the petroleum industry.

colleagues

peers

Those of equal status

companions · collaborators · workmates · teammates · counterparts · contemporaries · equals · partners · cohort · brethren

academic

scholars

Experts in a field

tenure · faculty · sabbatical · dissertation · university · professorship · endowment · stipend · grant · institute

membership

members

People in an organization

  • societyOrganized communal human existence
  • guildProfessional mutual-aid society
  • fraternitySpirit of brotherly connection

association · brotherhood · organization · institution · chapter · alumni · inductees · honorees · affiliates · constituents

informal

guys

People, informally addressed

lads · men · gentlemen · people · folks · buddies · pals · mates · characters · individuals

Categories
Opposites
academic/institutional rank

Fellowsstudents

Those receiving instruction

undergraduates · freshmen · novices · apprentices · trainees

gender/social grouping

Fellowsgals

Women, informally

ladies · women · girls · lasses · dames

membership status

Fellowsoutsiders

Those not belonging

non-members · strangers · laypeople · uninitiated · rejects

Phrases
Family

fellow, fellowship, fellowships, bedfellow, bedfellows, playfellow, schoolfellow, schoolfellows

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