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fellow-travelling

fellow-travelling is the present participle of fellow-travel.

Meaning of fellow-travel

Verb

fellow-travel (third-person singular simple present fellow-travels, present participle (US) fellow-traveling or (UK) fellow-travelling, simple past and past participle (US) fellow-traveled or (UK) fellow-travelled)

  1. (historical, intransitive) To sympathize with a particular individual, movement, or party, especially the Communist movement or party.
    • […] to "fellow-travel" with the Communists. They "travelled" recently round a very sharp bend, with those journalists of Pravda who in February last accused "doctors in high places" of the murder of Zhdanov and General Sherbakov […]1953, Free Labour World, page 2

Questions about fellow-travelling

What is fellow-travelling the present participle of?
Fellow-travelling is the present participle of fellow-travel.

Words near fellow-travelling in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fellow-travelling (page history and authors); fellow-travel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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