fellowman

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   another human being, especially one regarded as sharing a common humanity or community

   He believed that public service was a duty owed to every fellowman.

A closed compound of fellow and man, also written as the open form fellow man. It has denoted another member of the human race since at least the eighteenth century. The irregular plural is fellowmen; modern inclusive alternatives include fellow human and fellow person.

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