Fellowship

Quick meaning: Fellowship is a noun meaning A company of people that share the same interest or aim.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. A feeling of friendship, relatedness or connection between people.
2. (education) A merit-based scholarship.
3. (education) A temporary position at an academic institution with limited teaching duties and ample time for research.
4. (arithmetic, archaic) The proportional division of profit and loss among partners.
5. (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.
6. (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.
7. (dated) Company, companions; a group of people or things following another.

Example Sentences

The Fellowship of the Ring

The Bishop's family fellowshipped the new converts.

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

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

Word Forms

• fellowships
• fellowshipping
• fellowshiping
• fellowshipped
• fellowshiped

Synonyms for fellowship

Depending on context, synonyms include postdoc, society, companionship, company, family, comradeship.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include comradeship, companionship, society, company, family, good fellowship.

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