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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
Herman Melville

Meaning of "fellow men" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FELLOW MEN

fellow men  [ˈfɛləʊ mɛn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FELLOW MEN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Fellow men is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FELLOW MEN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of fellow men in the English dictionary

The definition of fellow men in the dictionary is if you refer to people as your fellow men, you are emphasizing that you and they are human beings and have things in common.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FELLOW MEN


acumen
ˈækjʊˌmɛn
amen
ˌeɪˈmɛn
cerumen
sɪˈruːmɛn
dolmen
ˈdɒlmɛn
examen
ɪɡˈzeɪmɛn
foramen
fɒˈreɪmɛn
gravamen
ɡrəˈveɪmɛn
hymen
ˈhaɪmɛn
jazzmen
ˈdʒæzmɛn
men
mɛn
nomen
ˈnəʊmɛn
outdoorsmen
ˌaʊtˈdɔːzmɛn
putamen
pjuːˈteɪmɛn
regimen
ˈrɛdʒɪˌmɛn
rumen
ˈruːmɛn
semen
ˈsiːmɛn
spearmen
ˈspɪəmɛn
supermen
ˈsuːpəmɛn
Turkmen
ˈtɜːkmɛn
Xiamen
ˈʃjɑːˈmɛn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FELLOW MEN

felloe
fellow
fellow being
fellow citizen
fellow countryman
fellow countrymen
fellow countrywoman
fellow countrywomen
fellow creature
fellow feeling
fellow inmate
fellow member
fellow passenger
fellow student
fellow traveler
fellow traveller
fellow worker
fellowly
fellowman
fellowship

WORDS THAT END LIKE FELLOW MEN

dead men
family men
fancy men
fisher of men
holy men
little green men
maintenance men
make-up men
media men
medicine men
merry men
morris men
oil men
red men
removal men
repair men
repo men
straight men
straw men
yes men

Synonyms and antonyms of fellow men in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «fellow men» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FELLOW MEN

Find out the translation of fellow men to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fellow men from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fellow men» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

男同胞
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

semejantes
570 millions of speakers

English

fellow men
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

साथी पुरुष
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

زميل الرجال
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ближних
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

semelhantes
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সদস্যগণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

semblables
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Rakan lelaki
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Mitmenschen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

仲間の男性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

동료들
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wong lanang
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đồng bào
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சக மனிதர்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सहकारी पुरुष
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Diğer erkekler
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

simili
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bliźni
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ближніх
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

semenilor
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συνανθρώπους
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

medemens
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

andra män
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

medmennesker
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fellow men

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FELLOW MEN»

The term «fellow men» is regularly used and occupies the 86.471 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FELLOW MEN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «fellow men» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «fellow men» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fellow men

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10 QUOTES WITH «FELLOW MEN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word fellow men.
1
Francis of Assisi
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
2
Carlos Castaneda
To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
3
Alistair Cooke
Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
4
Germaine Greer
If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
5
E. W. Howe
There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
6
Helen Keller
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
7
Gladys Knight
I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like we're supposed to.
8
Herman Melville
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
9
George Ripley
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.
10
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FELLOW MEN»

Discover the use of fellow men in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fellow men and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Fellow Men - A Gallery of England 1876-1946
The writing of this book has afforded him pleasure in his leisure moments, and that pleasure would be much increased if he knew that the perusal of it would create any bond of sympathy between himself and the angling community in general.
Albert Mansbridge, 2007
2
Tok Pisin Texts: From the Beginning to the Present
From the Beginning to the Present Peter Mühlhäusler, Thomas Edward Dutton, Suzanne Romaine. fellow men. All white men he make him tabu belong fight all house sick; he make him tabu belong fight all place, he got sick fellow men.
Peter Mühlhäusler, Thomas Edward Dutton, Suzanne Romaine, 2003
3
The Human Rights Reader: Major Political Essays, Speeches, ...
The Master said, “Love your fellow men.” He asked about wisdom. The Master said, “Know your fellow men.” Fan Ch'ih failed to grasp his meaning. The Master said, ”Raise the straight and set them over the crooked. This can make the crooked ...
Micheline Ishay, 2007
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Prediction of Changes
JUDGEMENT: Fellow Men in the open. Success. Beneficial to cross the great water. Beneficial for the perseverance of the superior man. IMAGE: Heaven and fire. Fellow Men. Thus the superior man makes distinction between things according ...
Sheng Bau, 2012
5
The Character of the Lord's Worker
instruction have accustomed us to address all men as our “fellow men”; however, this is not a matter of words but a matter of feeling. For example, we have a certain feeling for our brothers. We feel that certain ones are our brothers and that we ...
Watchman Nee, 1998
6
Collected Papers II: Photomechanical Reprint
It is common to me and my fellow-men. Other men whom I experience in this world do not appear to me in identical perspectives. They present themselves to me under different aspects and my relations with them have different degrees of ...
A. Schutz, A. Brodersen, 1976
7
Philosophy After Darwin: Classic and Contemporary Readings
in concert with others, his fellow-men, and would be ready to aid them in any way which did not too greatly interfere with his own welfare or his own strong desires. The social animals which stand at the bottom of the scale are guided almost ...
Michael Ruse, 2009
8
The Structures of the Life-world
Since essential elements of the subjective stock of knowledge were transmitted by certain people, these fellow-men are necessarily grasped by the individual as people who know "more" or know "better," at least at a point in time immediately ...
Alfred Schutz, 1973
9
Report of the Meetings of the Congress of the Advanced Minds ...
... impart it to our fellow men, that they may possess it — that they may freely exercise it for themselves and others. Every man in proportion to his progress in intellectual and moral development, acquires a measure of power which may become ...
Robert Owen, 1857
10
The Works of D. H. Lawrence
... going to come forth from the robot mass of rich and poor, mechanical ego- bound myriads? Life will find a way. Life always finds a way. Only. Oh man, stare, stare into the gulf between you and the robot-hordes, misnamed your fellow-men.
David Herbert Lawrence, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FELLOW MEN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fellow men is used in the context of the following news items.
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Nurses who died on June 3 are 'martyrs' – Ridge Hospital …
He stated in an interview with Citi News , “ Jesus Christ said that there is no Greater love than to lay our lives down for our fellow men. «Citifmonline, Jul 15»
2
TODAY'S EDITORIAL COMMENT: Pope Francis' opposition to …
In his homily against riches, Saint Basil presents this dialogue with a miser: “Share the crop you have harvested with your fellow men, for ... «postzambia.com, Jul 15»
3
What to watch this week: 'Jim Gaffigan Show'
Jim Gaffigan is not doing his fellow men any favors. The comedian, who stars as himself in TV Land's “The Jim Gaffigan Show,” starting ... «Madison.com, Jul 15»
4
Guest Column: Pope's message goes beyond climate change
Our nation's problems can only be solved when we change our attitudes toward our fellow men and women and the world around us. It is time ... «Yuma Sun, Jul 15»
5
London remembers the victims of 7/7, a decade later
... a common grief at the suffering which has been inflicted on so many of our fellow men and women, here and abroad,” Bishop Chartres said. «Church Times, Jul 15»
6
U.S. should not pressure Africa to embrace same-sex unions
Now you want our men to sleep with fellow men and our women with fellow women…We will not agree with you this time. If you like keep your ... «The Philadelphia Tribune, Jul 15»
7
Refugees Are Humans Too
Our lack of response to these tragedies involving our brothers and sisters points to the loss of that sense of responsibility for our fellow men and ... «Fair Observer, Jul 15»
8
Arlee Celebration unites cultures
... something much deeper: connecting with culture and family and honoring and respecting fellow men and women despite cultural differences. «Valleyjournal, Jul 15»
9
Meet these boys of summer, the Men's Over 60 Softball League
As he throws, catches and runs the bases, along with his fellow Men's Over 60 Softball League teammates, there is enthusiasm and excitement ... «Shoreline Times, Jul 15»
10
UK comes to standstill to mark 10 years since 7/7 attacks
We belong to different faith traditions but we share a common grief at the suffering which has been inflicted on so many of our fellow men and ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»

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