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fel·low·ship

 (fĕl′ō-shĭp′)
n.
1.
a. The companionship of individuals in a congenial atmosphere and on equal terms: a voracious reader who found fellowship in a book club.
b. Friendship; comradeship: A strong fellowship developed among them.
c. A close association of friends or equals sharing similar interests: a fellowship of photographers.
2.
a. The financial grant made to a fellow in a college or university.
b. The status or position of one who is awarded such a grant.
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fellowship

(ˈfɛləʊˌʃɪp)
n
1. the state of sharing mutual interests, experiences, activities, etc
2. a society of people sharing mutual interests, experiences, activities, etc; club
3. companionship; friendship
4. the state or relationship of being a fellow
5. (Ecclesiastical Terms)
a. mutual trust and charitableness between Christians
b. a Church or religious association
6. (Education) education
a. a financed research post providing study facilities, privileges, etc, often in return for teaching services
b. a foundation endowed to support a postgraduate research student
c. an honorary title carrying certain privileges awarded to a postgraduate student
7. (Education) (often capital) the body of fellows in a college, university, etc
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fel•low•ship

(ˈfɛl oʊˌʃɪp)

n.
1. the condition or relation of belonging to the same class or group.
2. friendly relationship; companionship; camaraderie: the fellowship among old friends.
3. community of interest, feeling, etc.
4. friendliness.
5. an association of persons having similar interests, occupations, enterprises, etc.
6.
a. the body of fellows in a college or university.
b. the position or stipend of a fellow of a college or university.
c. a foundation for the maintenance of a fellow in a college or university.
[1150–1200]
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Fellowship

 a company of equals or friends; a union or association; habitual companions; the crew of a vessel, 1466; members of a corporation or guild; the body of fellows of a college.
Examples: fellowship of the apostles; of friends; of holy men, 1541; of prophets, 1549; of vessels [boats], 1827; of yeomen, 1486.
Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

fellowship

The position of fellow at a college or university, or the money granted to one.
Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.fellowship - an association of people who share common beliefs or activitiesfellowship - 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"
association - a formal organization of people or groups of people; "he joined the Modern Language Association"
koinonia - Christian fellowship or communion with God or with fellow Christians; said in particular of the early Christian community
2.fellowship - the state of being with someonefellowship - the state of being with someone; "he missed their company"; "he enjoyed the society of his friends"
freemasonry - a natural or instinctive fellowship between people of similar interests; "he enjoyed the freemasonry of the Press"
friendly relationship, friendship - the state of being friends (or friendly)
3.fellowship - money granted (by a university or foundation or other agency) for advanced study or research
economic aid, financial aid, aid - money to support a worthy person or cause
prize, award - something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery; "the prize was a free trip to Europe"
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fellowship

noun
2. camaraderie, intimacy, communion, familiarity, brotherhood, companionship, sociability, amity, kindliness, fraternization, companionability, intercourse a sense of community and fellowship
Quotations
"Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell" [William Morris A Dream of John Ball]
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fellowship

noun
1. A pleasant association among people:
2. A group of people united in a relationship and having some interest, activity, or purpose in common:
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Translations
صَداقَه، زَمالَه، صُحْبَهمِنْحَه دراسيَّهنادٍ، إتحاد
přátelstvíspolečenstvíspolekstipendiumsvaz
forbundforeningkammeratskabselskabstipendium
félag, félagsskapurvinátta
spolok
arkadaşlıkbilimsel araştırma bursudernek

fellowship

[ˈfeləʊʃɪp] N
1. (= companionship) → compañerismo m
2. (= club, society) → asociación f
3. (Brit) (Univ) (= paid research post) → puesto m de becario (de investigación) (US) (Univ) (= grant) → beca f de investigación
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fellowship

[ˈfɛləʊʃɪp] n
(= society) → association f
(= comradeship) → camaraderie f
(UNIVERSITY) (= funding) sorte de bourse universitairefellow traveller n
(= travelling companion) → compagnon de route(compagne)m/f
(= communist sympathizer) → communisant(e) m/ffell-walking [ˈfɛlwɔːkɪŋ] n (British)randonnée f en montagne
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

fellowship

n
no plKameradschaft f; (= company)Gesellschaft f; (Eccl) → Gemeinschaft f; … who lived without the fellowship of other men…, der keinen Umgang mit anderen Menschen hatte; there’s no sense of fellowship herehier herrscht kein kameradschaftlicher Geist
(Univ: = scholarship) → Forschungsstipendium nt; (= job) Position eines Fellow
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

fellowship

[ˈfɛləʊˌʃɪp] n (companionship) → compagnia; (club, society) → associazione f (Univ) (research post) → incarico come ricercatore/trice
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

fellow

(ˈfeləu) noun
1. a man. He's quite a nice fellow but I don't like him.
2. (often as part of a word) a companion and equal. She is playing with her schoolfellows.
3. a member of certain academic societies; a member of the governing body or teaching staff of a college.
adjective
belonging to the same group, country etc. a fellow student; a fellow music-lover.
ˈfellowship noun
1. an association (of people with common interests). a youth fellowship (= a club for young people).
2. friendliness.
3. a scholarship given to a graduate student for advanced studies or for research.
ˌfellow-ˈfeeling noun
sympathy (especially for someone in a similar situation, of similar tastes etc). I had a fellow-feeling for the other patient with the broken leg.
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References in classic literature ?
The leaders of the different companies, therefore, mingled on terms of perfect good fellowship; interchanging visits, and regaling each other in the best style their respective camps afforded.
Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary-footed kind.
I conclude these remarks by copying the following portrait of the religion of the south, (which is, by communion and fellowship, the religion of the north,) which I soberly affirm is "true to the life," and without caricature or the slightest exaggeration.
The length of passages, the growing sense of solitude, the close dependence upon the very forces that, friendly to-day, without changing their nature, by the mere putting forth of their might, become dangerous to-morrow, make for that sense of fellowship which modern seamen, good men as they are, cannot hope to know.
The erudite gentleman in whom I confided congealed before I was half through!--it is all that saved him from exploding--and my dreams of an Honorary Fellowship, gold medals, and a niche in the Hall of Fame faded into the thin, cold air of his arctic atmosphere.
He hated the thought of the past; there was nothing that called out his love and fellowship toward the strangers he had come amongst; and the future was all dark, for there was no Unseen Love that cared for him.
He may bubble with wit, or expand with good fellowship. Or he may see intellectual spectres and phantoms that are cosmic and logical and that take the forms of syllogisms.
Fortune will not supply to every generation one of these well- appointed knights, but every collection of men furnishes some example of the class; and the politics of this country, and the trade of every town, are controlled by these hardy and irresponsible doers, who have invention to take the lead, and a broad sympathy which puts them in fellowship with crowds, and makes their action popular.
The person reading was a trifle different; one would have said of him that he was of the world, worldly, albeit there was that in his attire which attested a certain fellowship with the organisms of his environment.
By the Mother of Heaven, I am a better Christian man than thou and thy fellowship; for the bruit goeth shrewdly out, that the most holy Order of the Temple of Zion nurseth not a few heretics within its bosom, and that Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert is of the number.''
So amid great merriment and right good fellowship the outlaws shook Middle by the hand, and he took oath of fealty, and thought no more of the Sheriff's daughter.
The Six Jolly Fellowship Porters, already mentioned as a tavern of a dropsical appearance, had long settled down into a state of hale infirmity.

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