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English
Etymology
From name + fellow.
Noun
namefellow (plural namefellows)
- (rare, poetic) A person with whom one shares a surname or given name, or both.
- 1882, A.C. Swinburne, Tristram of Lyonesse; the protagonist of the poem travels to Brittany, where he meets another knight named Tristam, where they are described thus:
- But by the sea-banks where at morn their foes / Might find them, lay those knightly name-fellows, / One sick with grief of heart and sleepless, one / With heart of hope triumphant as the sun
Translations
someone with whom one shares a name
— see namesake