Scholar vs. Fellow

A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.

A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.

A learned person; a bookman.

One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.

Example: ‘I am no breeching scholar in the schools.’;

One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in any branch, or in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant.

A man of books.

In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.

a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs

a student who holds a scholarship

A scholar is a person who pursues academic and intellectual activities, particularly those that develop expertise in an area of study. A scholar may also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher or researcher at a university or other higher education institution.

(obsolete) A colleague or partner.

(archaic) A companion; a comrade.

A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man.

An equal in power, rank, character, etc.

One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate.

(colloquial) A male person; a man.

(rare) A person; an individual, male or female.

(heading) A rank or title in the professional world, usually given as "Fellow".

In the English universities, a scholar who is appointed to a foundation called a fellowship, which gives a title to certain perquisites and privileges.

In an American college or university, a member of the corporation which manages its business interests; also, a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the foundation.

A member of a literary or scientific society

Example: ‘a Fellow of the Royal Society’;

The most senior rank or title one can achieve on a technical career in certain companies (though some Fellows also hold business titles such as Vice President or Chief Technology Officer). This is typically found in large corporations in research and development-intensive industries (IBM or Sun Microsystems in information technology, and Boston Scientific in Medical Devices for example). They appoint a small number of senior scientists and engineers as Fellows.

In the US and Canada, a physician who is undergoing a supervised, sub-specialty medical training (fellowship) after completing a specialty training program (residency).

Having common characteristics; being of the same kind, or in the same group

Example: ‘Roger and his fellow workers are to go on strike.’;

To suit with; to pair with; to match.

A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer.

Example: ‘The fellows of his crime.’; ‘We are fellows still,Serving alike in sorrow.’; ‘That enormous engine was flanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude.’;

A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man.

Example: ‘Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow.’;

An equal in power, rank, character, etc.

Example: ‘It is impossible that ever RomeShould breed thy fellow.’;

One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate; the male.

Example: ‘When they be but heifers of one year, . . . they are let go to the fellow and breed.’; ‘This was my glove; here is the fellow of it.’;

A person; an individual.

Example: ‘She seemed to be a good sort of fellow.’;

In the English universities, a scholar who is appointed to a foundation called a fellowship, which gives a title to certain perquisites and privileges.

In an American college or university, a member of the corporation which manages its business interests; also, a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the foundation.

A member of a literary or scientific society; as, a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Example: ‘Were the great duke himself here, and would lift upMy head to fellow pomp amongst his nobles.’;

To suit with; to pair with; to match.

a boy or man;

Example: ‘that chap is your host’; ‘there's a fellow at the door’; ‘he's a likable cuss’;

a person who is frequently in the company of another;

Example: ‘drinking companions’; ‘comrades in arms’;

a person who is member of your class or profession;

Example: ‘the surgeon consulted his colleagues’; ‘he sent e-mail to his fellow hackers’;

an informal form of address for a man;

Example: ‘Say, fellow, what are you doing?’; ‘Hey buster, what's up?’;

a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman;

Example: ‘if I'd known he was her boyfriend I wouldn't have asked’;

A fellow is a broad concept whose exact meaning depends on context. In learned or professional societies, it refers to a privileged member who is specially elected in recognition of their work and achievements.