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fellowship

noun
/ˈfɛləʃɪp/UK/ˈfɛləʃɪp/US

Etymology

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”)

  1. derived from félagskapr
  2. inherited from felowschipe

Definitions

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

    • The Fellowship of the Ring

  2. Company, companions

    Company, companions; a group of people or things following another.

  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.
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. 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.

    2. A temporary position at an academic institution with limited teaching duties and ample…

      A temporary position at an academic institution with limited teaching duties and ample time for research.

    3. A period of supervised, sub-specialty medical training in the United States and Canada…

      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.

    4. The proportional division of profit and loss among partners.

    5. To admit to fellowship, enter into fellowship with

      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.

    6. To join in fellowship

      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.
      • Oure lorde Jesu came in manere of a pilgrym and felauschipped [Aldh felischippede] with hem. Our lord Jesus came in the manner of a pilgrim and fellowshipped with them.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fellowship. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01fellowship02interest03exact04methodical05systematic06treating07companionship

A definitional loop anchored at fellowship. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at fellowship

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA