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Definition of Fellow traveller
1. Noun. A communist sympathizer (but not a member of the Communist Party).
2. Noun. A traveler who accompanies you.
Generic synonyms: Traveler, Traveller
Derivative terms: Companion, Companionship
Definition of Fellow traveller
1. Noun. One who travels together with another. ¹
2. Noun. One who sympathizes with the aims or beliefs of an organization, without belonging to it; most often applied to a Communist sympathizer. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fellow Traveller
Literary usage of Fellow traveller
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author by Laurence Sterne (1813)
"I mean, I had secured a lodging; and as to the intelligence concerning my
unfortunate fellow-traveller, it did not come within the compass of her knowledge. ..."
2. The Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould (1877)
"to his fellow traveller, " Begin the Te Deum; I will respond." Thus chanting
together the hymn of praise, they arrived at the convent of S. Bonaventura on ..."
3. The Life and Times of Henry, Lord Brougham by Henry Brougham Brougham and Vaux (1871)
"—Heron's Play damned.—I go on a Yachting Expedition among the Western Isles.—My
Fellow-traveller Charles Stuart (Stuart de ..."