Fellowship

/ˈfɛləʃɪp/ · noun

Meaning

A company of people that share the same interest or aim..

Definitions by Sense

1. A company of people that share the same interest or aim.
2. (dated) Company, companions; a group of people or things following another.
3. A feeling of friendship, relatedness or connection between people.
4. (education) A merit-based scholarship.
5. (education) A temporary position at an academic institution with limited teaching duties and ample time for research.
6. (medicine) A period of supervised, sub-specialty medical training in the United States and Canada that a physician may undertake after completing a specialty training program or residency.
7. (arithmetic, archaic) The proportional division of profit and loss among partners.
8. (transitive) To admit to fellowship, enter into fellowship with; to make feel welcome by showing friendship or building a cordial relationship. Now only in religious use.

Example Sentences

The Fellowship of the Ring

[…]But then the mind much ſufferance doth or'e ſcip, When griefe hath mates,and bearing fellowſhip : How light and portable my paine ſeemes now, When that which makes me bend, makes the King bow, He childed as I fathered,Tom away, Marke the high noyſes and thy ſelfe bewray,[…]

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

A King thou art by name, and a King of good fellovvſhippe by nature, vvhereby I ominate this Encomion of the king of fiſhes vvas predeſtinate to thee from thy ſvvadling clothes.

There is a significant investment in scholarships and fellowships and traineeships, so that we are also making sure that we’re investing in domestic work force.

It will go toward 20 full-tuition fellowships for students of color, as well as to endow the initiative in perpetuity, provide relief for the existing scholarship fund and bring in artists of color as visiting faculty over the next five years.

The Bishop's family fellowshipped the new converts.

The Society of Religious Snobs refused to fellowship the poor family.

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Word Forms

• fellowships
• fellowshipping
• fellowshiping
• fellowshipped
• fellowshiped

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