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n. 1 companionship, camaraderie, comradeship, amity,
brotherhood, fraternization, togetherness, association,
friendship, amity, companionability, sociability, intimacy: I
have always enjoyed the fellowship of my university colleagues.
2 society, club, association, alliance, guild, league, union,
sisterhood, sorority, brotherhood, fraternity, congregation,
circle, community, order, organization, consortium, partnership;
lodge, clan, company, coterie, set, clique, coalition, bloc,
cartel, trust: They belong to the worldwide fellowship of
artists. 3 friendliness, clubbiness, sociability, intimacy,
amicability, affability, kindliness, cordiality, familiarity,
affinity, belonging, congeniality, warmth, hospitality: Being a
club member gives him a feeling of fellowship.
felon n. criminal, outlaw, lawbreaker, offender, culprit, miscreant,
malefactor, wrongdoer: Only if convicted of a certain class of
crime is a person technically a felon.
feminine adj. 1 female, womanlike, womanly, ladylike, submissive,
deferential, amenable, gentle, docile, tender, soft, delicate:
She is much more feminine than her sister. 2 effeminate,
womanish, unmanly, unmasculine, sissy or Brit cissy, sissified
or Brit cissified, effete, affected: Barry's manner and
behaviour seem to become more feminine every day.
fence n. 1 barrier, enclosure, barricade, confine, wall, rampart;
railing(s), palisade: Maurice had a fence put up round his
house. 2 on the fence. undecided, indecisive, vacillating,
uncommitted, uncertain, irresolute; impartial, neutral,
non-partisan, unbiased, unprejudiced, unaligned, non-aligned,
independent: She is on the fence with regard to the issue of
capital punishment.
--v. 3 enclose, encircle, surround, circumscribe, bound, coop,
restrict, hedge, confine, fortify, protect, separate: The
pasture is fenced both to keep the sheep in and the wolves out.
Fence off this area for a garden. 4 parry, avoid, fend off,
sidestep, dodge, evade, hedge, stonewall, equivocate, palter,
tergiversate, vacillate, shilly-shally, quibble, cavil, beat
about the bush, qualify, prevaricate, Colloq Brit waffle:
Awkward questions were adroitly fenced by the chairman. Give a
straight answer and stop fencing.