fellow-travel en · VERB
Etymology
Back-formation from fellow traveller.
Meanings
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(historical, intransitive) To sympathize with a particular individual, movement, or party, especially the Communist movement or party.
[…] to "fellow-travel" with the Communists. They "travelled" recently round a very sharp bend, with those journalists of Pravda who in February last accused "doctors in high places" of the murder of Zhdanov and General Sherbakov […]
1953, Free Labour World, page 2:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| fellow-travelled | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | UK | lexicographic |
| fellow-travelled | Tense=Past | UK | lexicographic |
| fellow-traveling | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | US | lexicographic |
| fellow-traveled | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | US | lexicographic |
| fellow-traveled | Tense=Past | US | lexicographic |
| fellow-travelling | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | UK | lexicographic |
| fellow-travels | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |