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Definition of fellow traveller in English: fellow travellernoun 1A person who travels with another. the flight attendant asked my fellow travellers to turn off their phones Example sentencesExamples - As I tell all my fellow travelers on the Chicago Film Tour bus, everyone's opinion is valid when it comes to film, the most democratic and accessible of the arts.
- When travelling by train do not agree to look after the luggage of a fellow traveller or allow it to be stored in your compartment.
- The two sixtysomething fellow travelers board a plane for mysteries that only another country can provide.
- The ceremony will honour the men and women who tended the injured and also the walking wounded who refused to leave the scene and helped their fellow travellers.
- If any one planning is the same trip on the same dates, i shall be more than happy to get a fellow traveller.
- There are any number of things that can blight a train journey: unruly children; fellow travellers barking into mobile phones; signal failures.
- Climbing over the ruins of Machu Picchu with a group of archaeologists, I was struck by the age of our fellow travelers.
- Researchers have found that eight in ten of us display annoying habits that drive our fellow travellers up the wall.
- You could take just a single book and once you've reached 'reader, I married him', swap it with a fellow traveller in the hostel common room.
- Be aware of the lack of arm room and be courteous to your fellow travellers.
- 1.1 A person who is not a member of a particular group or political party (especially the Communist Party), but who sympathizes with the group's aims and policies.
he was certainly a fellow traveller—in the political context of the Thirties this was unremarkable Example sentencesExamples - I don't expect American liberals or their fellow travellers to pay much heed to King's argument.
- If he was a communist or even a fellow-traveller then clearly that would be a different matter but he was a committed anti-Soviet.
- The author is a Communist, or at least a fellow traveller, and he's agog at just how wonderful the Soviet Union is - although he finds some cities to be quite dirty.
- George Orwell once remarked to a Communist fellow traveler with whom he was having a dispute: ‘You must be an intellectual.’
- If nothing else, it is refreshing to see a feminist fellow traveler acknowledge that there is, indeed, an innate value in motherhood.
- This is just to say that although I may never become Catholic, I am to some extent a fellow-traveler and feel very comforted by the vibrant Catholic blogging community.
- This is exactly what the fellow-travellers of Empire, mimicking a past generation of fellow-travellers, refuse to accept.
- All too many of his nihilist fellow-travellers in Western establishment circles have expressed the same sentiment over and over again these last few years.
- Sartre has been dismissed politically as a Stalinist fellow traveller.
- Care should be taken in distinguishing the hard-core totalitarians from the fellow-travelers, and Pipes doesn't seem to want to do this.
- The collapse of Bolshevism deprived the panoply of fellow-travelers of the paradaisal vision they needed to function.
- For Berlin she embodied the absolute reproach to ‘all the Marxist fellow-travellers who believed that individuals could never stand up to the march of history’.
- Am I worried that people who should be my fellow-travelers are turning against me?
Synonyms supporter, advocate, backer, well-wisher, ally, partisan
Derivativesadjective It is true, of course, that the fellow-traveling left did not acknowledge Soviet crimes soon enough or straightforwardly enough. Example sentencesExamples - Only they - plus a few fellow-travelling experts drawn from academia - truly comprehend the convoluted mysteries of contemporary art.
- And then he looks at his father and shows you how he was at one point a fellow-traveling member of the Communist Party, and how he ended up becoming very right-wing, a rabid Tory, frankly.
- He moved in fellow-travelling circles, modestly supporting Soviet causes.
- Few traitors and fellow-traveling spokesmen in the West have been publicly exposed, let alone punished.
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