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fellowship

Syllables: fel·low·shipUK/ˈfɛl.ə(ʊ).ʃɪp//ˈfɛl.ə.ʃɪp/

fellowship noun: a company of people that share the same interest or aim.

Noun

fellowship (countable and uncountable, plural fellowships)

  1. A company of people that share the same interest or aim.
    • The Fellowship of the Ring
  2. (dated) Company, companions; a group of people or things following another.
    • […]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,[…]c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […]...
  3. A feeling of friendship, relatedness or connection between people.
    • 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.1599, [Thomas] Nashe, “[The Epistle Dedicatorie]”, in Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC
  4. A merit-based scholarship.
    • 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.2021 May 18, Catie Edmondson, quoting Debbie Altenburg, “Senate Weighs Investing $120 Billion in Science to Counter China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    • 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.2021 May 20, Hilarie M. Sheets, “A Utopian Art School in Michigan Looks Back and Ahead”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  5. A temporary position at an academic institution with limited teaching duties and ample time for research.
    Synonyms:
    postdoc
  6. 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. (archaic) The proportional division of profit and loss among partners.

Verb

fellowship (third-person singular simple present fellowships, present participle fellowshipping or (US also) fellowshiping, simple past and past participle fellowshipped or (US also) fellowshiped)

  1. (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.
    • The Bishop's family fellowshipped the new converts.
    • The Society of Religious Snobs refused to fellowship the poor family.
  2. (US, especially, intransitive, now chiefly religious) To join in fellowship; to associate with.
    • The megachurch he attends is too big for making personal connections, so he also fellowships weekly in one of the church's small groups.
    • After she got married, she stopped fellowshipping with the singles in our church.

fellowship meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

fellowship in Hindi

Company of people that shares the same interest or aim
अनुयायी anuyāyī

fellowship in Tamil

ஆதரவு ஊதியம், ஆய்வு உதவித் தொகை, ஆய்வுதவித் தொகை, புத்தாய்வு மாணவர் நிலை, சக ஆய்வாளர் நிலை, கூட்டாளர் குழு

fellowship in Marathi

फेलोशिप

fellowship in Urdu

انس
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fellowship in Bengali
সহকারিতা, সাহচর্য, সংসর্গ, বন্ধুভাব
fellowship in Malayalam
കൂട്ടായ്മ kūṭṭāyma, സഖ്യം sakhyaṁ
fellowship in Kannada
ಜೊತೆ jote
fellowship in Punjabi
ਫੈਲੋਸ਼ਿਪ
fellowship in Gujarati
ફેલોશિપ, ફેલોશીપ
fellowship in Odia
ସଭ୍ୟତା sabhyatā
fellowship in Nepali
फेलोशिप, फेलोसिप, फेलोसिपमा
fellowship in Tagalog
samahan
fellowship in Indonesian
persekutuan

Examples of fellowship in a sentence

  • Liefer would we your fellowship seek than that of this malapert, cautelous bretheling!
  • Confessionality is the foundation for the Lutheran concept of confessional fellowship (Bekenntnisgemeinschaft).
  • Each will be issued a testamur of fellowship bearing the Seal of the Society.

All 21 example sentences with fellowship

Synonyms of fellowship

Forms of fellowship

Noun
pluralfellowships
Verb
third-person singular presentfellowships
present participlefellowshipping
present participle US alsofellowshiping
past participlefellowshipped
pastfellowshipped
past participle US alsofellowshiped
past US alsofellowshiped

Plural of fellowship: fellowships

Origin of fellowship

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

Words formed from fellowship

Phrases with fellowship

Questions about fellowship

What does fellowship mean?
Fellowship means a company of people that share the same interest or aim.
What is fellowship in Hindi?
Fellowship in Hindi is अनुयायी (anuyāyī). See Fellowship meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is fellowship?
Fellowship can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce fellowship?
Fellowship is pronounced /ˈfɛl.ə(ʊ).ʃɪp/ (UK).
What is the plural of fellowship?
The plural of fellowship is fellowships.

Words near fellowship in the dictionary

  1. fellowlike
  2. fellowly
  3. fellowman
  4. fellowmen
  5. fellows
  6. fellowship
  7. fellowshiped
  8. fellowshiping
  9. fellowshippe
  10. fellowshipped
  11. fellowshipper

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fellowship (page history and authors); fellowship (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fellowship (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fellowship (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fellowship (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಜೊತೆ (Kannada) (page history and authors); fellowship (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fellowship (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ସଭ୍ୟତା (Odia) (page history and authors); fellowship (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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