fellow traveller

See also: fellow-traveller

English

Alternative forms

• fellow-traveller, fellow traveler, fellow-traveler

Noun

fellow traveller (plural fellow travellers)

1. One who travels together with another.
   • 1964 July, Mary Allen, “A Woman's View of the New Coaches”, in Modern Railways, page 9:

     The arrangement of some seats facing and some one behind the other, bus fashion, seems a sensible compromise; I am one of those who do not enjoy staring at my fellow travellers for perhaps hours on end.

2. (US) One who sympathizes with the aims or beliefs of an organization without belonging to it; most often applied to a Communist sympathizer. [mid-20th c.]
   • 1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon‎^[1], Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 42:

     Earlier in the year, Ohio Senator Robert Taft charged that Democratic congressional proposals "bordered on communism," while Joe Martin called for Republican victories in order to oust the Communists and fellow travelers from the federal government.

Related terms

• fellow passenger

See also

• card-carrying
• comsymp
• premature antifascist
• sputnik

 

Translations

one who travels together with another

• Armenian: ուղեկից (hy) (uġekicʻ)
• Belarusian: спадаро́жнік (be) m (spadaróžnik), спадаро́жніца f (spadaróžnica)
• Bulgarian: спъ́тник (bg) m (spǎ́tnik), спъ́тничка f (spǎ́tnička), спъ́тница f (spǎ́tnica)
• Czech: souputník (cs) m, souputnice f
• Danish: medpassager c, følgesvend c, rejsekammerat c
• Faroese: ferðafelagi
• Finnish: matkakumppani, kanssamatkustaja (fi), matkaseuralainen
• French: compagnon de voyage m
• German: Mitreisender (de) m, Mitreisende (de) f
• Icelandic: samferðamaður m, samferðakona f, (collective) samferðafólk n
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• Irish: comhthaistealaí m
• Manx: cohroailtagh m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: medpassasjer m, reisekamerat, reisefelle

  Nynorsk: medpassasjer m, reisefelage, reisefelle

• Polish: współpasażer m, współpasażerka f
• Russian: спу́тник (ru) m (spútnik), спу́тница (ru) f (spútnica), попу́тчик (ru) m (popútčik), попу́тчица (ru) f (popútčica)
• Swedish: reskamrat c
• Turkish: yol arkadaşı (tr)
• Ukrainian: супу́тник (uk) m (supútnyk), супу́тниця f (supútnycja), попу́тник m (popútnyk), попу́тниця f (popútnycja)

one who sympathizes without belonging

• Czech: sympatizant (cs) m
• Finnish: myötäjuoksija (fi), kanssamatkustaja (fi)
• French: compagnon de route (fr), sympathisant (fr)
• German: Sympathisant (de), Weggenosse
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• Irish: ^{(please verify)} comhleacaí (cumannach) m
• Italian: compagno di viaggio
• Yiddish: נאָכלויפֿער m (nokhloyfer)