fellowship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛləʃɪp/
ipa: /ˈfɛləʊʃɪp/
ipa: /ˈfɛləʃɪp/
ipa: /ˈfɛloʊʃɪp/
Forms: form: fellowships
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”)
Senses: examples: text: The Fellowship of the Ring
coordinate_terms: companionship
communing
glosses: A company of people that share the same interest or aim.
examples: text: […]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,[…]
ref: 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, […], published 1608, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
glosses: Company, companions; a group of people or things following another.
examples: text: The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: A feeling of friendship, relatedness or connection between people.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2021 May 18, Catie Edmondson, quoting Debbie Altenburg, “Senate Weighs Investing $120 Billion in Science to Counter China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: 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.
ref: 2021 May 20, Hilarie M. Sheets, “A Utopian Art School in Michigan Looks Back and Ahead”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: education
coordinate_terms: traineeship
glosses: A merit-based scholarship.
topics: education
synonyms: postdoc
glosses: A temporary position at an academic institution with limited teaching duties and ample time for research.
topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: residency
internship
glosses: 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.
topics: arithmetic
glosses: The proportional division of profit and loss among partners.
Derived terms: disfellowship
good-fellowship
right hand of fellowship