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
  • Still, social media videos showed individuals defiantly competing in front of the City Hall building in July.
    — Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Earlier this year, the State Department halted immigrant visas for individuals from Afghanistan, Brazil, Yemen and other countries.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of individuals
Noun
  • More than half all greenhouse gases produced by humans throughout history have been released into the atmosphere over 50 years.
    — Peter Prengaman, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Instead of law enforcement, policing shifts to violent secure against mathematical possibility by acting against living humans now.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of humans
Noun
  • Mere mortals have to worry about cutting extended family because of budget reasons, but celebrities don’t.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 19 Aug. 2026
  • For the rest of us mere mortals, here are the travel bags worth investing in.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of mortals
Noun
  • Le Guin’s prose and poetry mourn the dead forest and other living Earth beings while exulting at the mountain’s power.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026
  • These forces could be imagined as two beings and, by metaphoric extension, as male and female.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of beings
Noun
  • The animation is truly ugly, the characters moving at the framerate of a PowerPoint and looking less like the animals they’re supposed to be than weird hybrid troll creatures.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Hikers often spot these charismatic creatures perched on boulders or scurrying through wildflowers.
    — Brittany Peterson, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of creatures
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“Fellowmen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fellowmen. Accessed 26 Aug. 2026.

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