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fellow-traveler

fellow-traveler is the alternative spelling of fellow traveller.

Meaning of fellow traveller

Noun

fellow traveller (plural fellow travellers)

  1. One who travels together with another.
    • The arrangement of some seats facing and some one behind the other, bus fashion, seems a sensible compromise; I am one of those who do not enjoy staring at my fellow travellers for perhaps hours on end.1964 July, Mary Allen, “A Woman's View of the New Coaches”, in Modern Railways, page 9
  2. One who sympathizes with the aims or beliefs of an organization without belonging to it; especially a Communist sympathizer.
    • Near-synonym: camp follower
    Synonyms:
    camp follower

Forms of fellow-traveler

pluralfellow-travelers

Questions about fellow-traveler

What is fellow-traveler the alternative spelling of?
Fellow-traveler is the alternative spelling of fellow traveller.

Words near fellow-traveler in the dictionary

  1. fellow-man
  2. fellow-me-lad
  3. fellow-me-lads
  4. fellow-travel
  5. fellow-traveled
  6. fellow-traveler
  7. fellow-travelers
  8. fellow-traveling
  9. fellow-traveller
  10. fellow-travellers
  11. fellow-travelling

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