A Topical Dictionary: Search for fellowship

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Noun

A company of people that shares the same interest or aim.
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; this may also be called a postdoctoral|postdoc.
A stipend that supports the pursuit of an advanced degree and/or research.

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Fellowship \Fel"low*ship\, n. [Fellow + -ship.]
1. The state or relation of being or associate.
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2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms;
frequent and familiar intercourse.
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In a great town, friends are scattered, so that
there is not that fellowship which is in less
neighborhods. --Bacon.
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Men are made for society and mutual fellowship.
--Calamy.
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3. A state of being together; companionship; partnership;
association; hence, confederation; joint interest.
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The great contention of the sea and skies
Parted our fellowship. --Shak.
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Fellowship in pain divides not smart. --Milton.
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Fellowship in woe doth woe assuage. --Shak.
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The goodliest fellowship of famous knights,
Whereof this world holds record. --Tennyson.
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4. Those associated with one, as in a family, or a society; a
company.
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The sorrow of Noah with his fellowship. --Chaucer.
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With that a joyous fellowship issued
Of minstrels. --Spenser.
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5. (Eng. & Amer. Universities) A foundation for the
maintenance, on certain conditions, of a scholar called a
fellow, who usually resides at the university.
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6. (Arith.) The rule for dividing profit and loss among
partners; -- called also partnership, company, and
distributive proportion.
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Good fellowship, companionableness; the spirit and
disposition befitting comrades.
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There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good
fellowship in thee. --Shak.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Fellowship \Fel"low*ship\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fellowshiped;
p. pr. & vb. n.. Fellowshiping.] (Eccl.)
To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according
to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian
fellowship.
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WordNet fellowship
n 1: an association of people who share common beliefs or
activities; "the message was addressed not just to
employees but to every member of the company family";
"the church welcomed new members into its fellowship"
[syn: family]
2: the state of being with someone; "he missed their company";
"he enjoyed the society of his friends" [syn: company, companionship,
society]
3: money granted (by a university or foundation or other
agency) for advanced study or research

Moby Dictionary
accord , accordance , affability , affiliation , affinity , agape ,
agreement , aid , alignment , alimony , alliance , allotment , allowance ,
amalgamation , amicability , amity , annuity , assistance , association ,
belonging , bipartisanship , bloc , body , bonds of harmony ,
boon companionship , bounty , branch , brotherhood , brotherliness ,
brotherly love , cahoots , camaraderie , caritas , cartel ,
cement of friendship , chair , chair of English , charity , chumship ,
church , circle , clan , clique , club , coaction , coadjuvancy ,
coadministration , coadunation , coagency , coalescence , coalition ,
cochairmanship , codirectorship , collaboration , collaborativeness ,
colleagueship , collectivism , collegialism , collegiality , collusion ,
combination , commensalism , commerce , common effort ,
common enterprise , communalism , communication , communion ,
communism , communitarianism , community , community of interest ,
community of interests , companionability , companionship , company ,
compatibility , complicity , comradery , comradeship , concert ,
concord , concordance , concurrence , confederacy , confederation ,
confraternity , confrerie , congeniality , congregation , congress ,
consociation , consolidation , consorting , consortium , consortship ,
conversation , converse , cooperation , cooperativeness ,
copartnership , copartnery , cordiality , correspondence , coterie ,
country club , denomination , depletion allowance , division , dole ,
duet , duumvirate , ecumenicalism , ecumenicism , ecumenism , empathy ,
esprit , esprit de corps , faction , familiarity , federation ,
feeling of identity , fellow feeling , financial assistance ,
fraternal order , fraternalism , fraternity , fraternization ,
freemasonry , frictionlessness , friendliness , friendship , fusion ,
good vibes , good vibrations , good-fellowship , grant , grant-in-aid ,
group , guaranteed annual income , guild , happy family , harmony ,
help , hobnobbing , hookup , hospitality , identity , inclusion ,
incorporation , integration , intercommunication , intercommunion ,
intercourse , intimacy , joining of forces , joint effort ,
joint operation , kindliness , kinship , league , like-mindedness ,
lodge , love , mass action , membership , merger , morale ,
mutual assistance , mutualism , mutuality , octet , offshoot ,
old-age insurance , oneness , order , organization , partaking ,
participation , partnership , party , peace , pecuniary aid , pension ,
persuasion , pooling , pooling of resources , preceptorship ,
price support , professorate , professorhood , professoriate ,
professorship , public assistance , public welfare , pulling together ,
quartet , quintet , rapport , rapprochement , readership , reciprocity ,
relief , religious order , retirement benefits , schism , scholarship ,
school , schoolmastery , secret society , sect , sectarism , segment ,
septet , set , sextet , sharing , sisterhood , sisterliness ,
sociability , social activity , social intercourse , social relations ,
society , sodality , solidarity , sorority , stipend , subsidization ,
subsidy , subvention , support , symbiosis , sympathy , symphony ,
synergism , synergy , tax benefit , teachership , team spirit ,
teamwork , tie-in , tie-up , togetherness , trio , triumvirate , troika ,
trust , tutelage , tutorage , tutorship , understanding , unification ,
union , unison , united action , unity , variety , version , warmth ,
welfare , welfare aid , welfare payments

Fellowship (1.) With God, consisting in the knowledge of his will (Job 22:21; John 17:3); agreement with his designs (Amos 3:2); mutual affection (Rom. 8: 38, 39); enjoyment of his presence (Ps. 4:6); conformity to his image (1 John 2:6; 1:6); and participation of his felicity (1 John 1:3, 4; Eph. 3:14-21). (2.) Of saints with one another, in duties (Rom. 12:5; 1 Cor. 12:1; 1 Thess. 5:17, 18); in ordinances (Heb. 10:25; Acts 2:46); in grace, love, joy, etc. (Mal. 3:16; 2 Cor. 8:4); mutual interest, spiritual and temporal (Rom. 12:4, 13; Heb. 13:16); in sufferings (Rom. 15:1, 2; Gal. 6:1, 2; Rom. 12:15; and in glory (Rev. 7:9).