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fellow travellers

fellow travellers is the plural 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

Questions about fellow travellers

What is fellow travellers the plural of?
Fellow travellers is the plural of fellow traveller.

Words near fellow travellers in the dictionary

  1. fellow servant
  2. fellow servants
  3. fellow traveler
  4. fellow travelers
  5. fellow traveller
  6. fellow travellers
  7. fellow-commoner
  8. fellow-commoners
  9. fellow-feeling
  10. fellow-feelings
  11. fellow-man

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