fellowship

Meanings

Noun

• A company of people that share the same interest or aim.
• Company, companions; a group of people or things following another.
• A feeling of friendship, relatedness or connection between people.
• A merit-based scholarship.
• A temporary position at an academic institution with limited teaching duties and ample time for research.
• 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.
• The proportional division of profit and loss among partners.

Verb

• To admit to fellowship, enter into fellowship with; to make feel welcome by showing friendship or building a cordial relationship.
• To join in fellowship; to associate with.

Origin

• From Middle English felowschipe, felawshipe, felaȝschyp, equivalent to fellow + -ship; or perhaps adapted from Old Norse félagskapr, félagsskapr. Compare Icelandic félagsskapur ("companionship, company, community"), Danish fællesskab ("fellowship"), Norwegian fellesskap ("fellowship").