fellow traveler

Questions about fellow traveler

What does fellow traveler mean?

fellow traveler means "a communist sympathizer (but not a member of the Communist Party)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for fellow traveler?

Close synonyms include fellow traveller, companion, fellow traveller. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fellow traveler a common word?

fellow traveler is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.