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fellow-traveller

fellow-traveller 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-traveller

pluralfellow-travellers

Questions about fellow-traveller

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

Words near fellow-traveller in the dictionary

  1. fellow-travel
  2. fellow-traveled
  3. fellow-traveler
  4. fellow-travelers
  5. fellow-traveling
  6. fellow-traveller
  7. fellow-travellers
  8. fellow-travelling
  9. fellow-travels
  10. fellowcraft
  11. fellowcrafts

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