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a) One who travels together with another.b) One who sympathizes with the aims or beliefs of an organization, without belonging to it; most often applied to a Communist sympathizer.
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fellow traveller — BrE fellow traveler AmE n someone who supports and agrees with the beliefs of an organization, such as the Communist Party, but does not belong to it used to show disapproval … Dictionary of contemporary English
fellow-traveller — ► NOUN ▪ a non member of the Communist Party who nevertheless sympathizes with its policies. DERIVATIVES fellow travelling adjective … English terms dictionary
fellow traveller — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms fellow traveller : singular fellow traveller plural fellow travellers 1) a person who travels with someone else 2) someone who supports a political party, especially the Communist party, but is not a member of… … English dictionary
fellow-traveller — a Communist sympathizer or apologist Trotsky s poputchnik and Lenin s useful fool who may be described as fellow travelling: I knew you had some Communist friends... They thought you were a sentimental fellow traveller, just as we did.… … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
fellow traveller — noun 1. a communist sympathizer (but not a member of the Communist Party) • Syn: ↑fellow traveler • Hypernyms: ↑sympathizer, ↑sympathiser, ↑well wisher 2. a traveler who accompanies you • Syn: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
fellow traveller — {n.} A sympathizer with a political movement who does not officially belong to the political party in question. * /Many Germans after World War II were innocently accused of being fellow travellers of Nazism./ * /During the McCarthy era, many… … Dictionary of American idioms
fellow traveller — {n.} A sympathizer with a political movement who does not officially belong to the political party in question. * /Many Germans after World War II were innocently accused of being fellow travellers of Nazism./ * /During the McCarthy era, many… … Dictionary of American idioms
fellow traveller — ▪ Soviet literature Russian Poputchik, originally, a writer in the Soviet Union who was not against the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 but did not actively support it as a propagandist. The term was used in this sense by Leon Trotsky in… … Universalium
fellow-traveller — noun a sympathizer with, but non member of, the Communist Party. Derivatives fellow travelling adjective … English new terms dictionary
fellow traveller — BrE, fellow traveler AmE noun (C) someone you disapprove of because they agree with the aims of the Communist Party … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
