fellowmen

noun

plural of fellowman
as in people

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  1. people
  2. individuals
  3. humans
  4. mortals
  5. beings
  6. creatures
Noun
  • Another 13 people were wounded on downtown Sacramento’s K Street and 10th Street, in what became the deadliest mass shooting in the city’s history.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2026
  • Organizers say more than 125,000 people are expected throughout the event, bringing in millions of dollars for the local economy.
    — Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 19 June 2026
Definition of people
Noun
  • And what if, having been shown the error of their ways, the unorthodox individuals refused to change?
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The Treasury has also indicated there may be exemptions, such as for individuals who bought or inherited their home but who now have a lower income.
    — Marc Shoffman, TheWeek, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of individuals
Noun
  • Mostly forgotten in all of this is the impact of these deaths on the humans rescuing them in Chicago.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026
  • And Ship will start carrying humans into the final frontier in the near future, if all goes to plan.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of humans
Noun
  • Lamashtu said something the patriarch couldn’t abide, and for that she was cast out of polite divine society forever and sent to make chaos among mortals.
    — Eleanor Johnson, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Sometimes a starship encounters a cosmic entity that — for some hard-to-fathom reason — chooses to study lesser mortals by forcing them into a big old game of dress-up.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of mortals
Noun
  • That said, the impossibility of knowing how to get rid of these immense beings, and the DIY nature of the operations its doughty characters come up with, is one of the great sources of satisfaction these movies offer.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Jainism therefore strongly encourages ahimsa toward all living beings, from animals to microbes, and vegetarianism is the norm.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of beings
Noun
  • After environmentalists advocated for protecting these unique creatures, the nuclear-weapons manufacturing on their site was halted.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Billions of minuscule creatures, after all, agitate the waterways of the world.
    — Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of creatures
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