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fellow traveler

noun

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

• Syn: ↑fellow traveller

• Hypernyms: ↑sympathizer, ↑sympathiser, ↑well-wisher

2. a traveler who accompanies you

• Syn: ↑companion, ↑fellow traveller

• Derivationally related forms: ↑companionship (for: ↑companion), ↑companion (for: ↑companion)

• Hypernyms: ↑traveler, ↑traveller

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(US) (or Brit fellow traveller) noun, pl ⋯ -ers [count]

1 : someone who is traveling in the same group or on the same train, airplane, etc., as you

I struck up a conversation with one of my fellow travelers.

2 : someone who shares the opinions and beliefs of the people in a group or organization (especially the Communist Party) but does not belong to that group or organization

He was not a member of the Communist Party or even a fellow traveler.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.