fellow traveller

1. 1.

   a communist sympathizer (but not a member of the Communist Party)

   Synonymsfellow traveler

   Broadersympathizer
2. 2.

   a traveler who accompanies you

   Synonymscompanionfellow traveler

   Broadertraveler

Questions about fellow traveller

What does fellow traveller mean?

fellow traveller 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 traveller?

Close synonyms include fellow traveler, companion, fellow traveler. 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 traveller a common word?

fellow traveller 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.