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FELLOWSHIP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An association of people who share common beliefs or activities
Example:
the church welcomed new members into its fellowship
Synonyms:
family; fellowship
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("fellowship" is a kind of...):
association (a formal organization of people or groups of people)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fellowship"):
koinonia (Christian fellowship or communion with God or with fellow Christians; said in particular of the early Christian community)
Derivation:
fellow (a person who is member of one's class or profession)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Money granted (by a university or foundation or other agency) for advanced study or research
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("fellowship" is a kind of...):
aid; assistance; economic aid; economic assistance; financial aid; financial assistance (gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause)
award; prize (something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The state of being with someone
Example:
he enjoyed the society of his friends
Synonyms:
companionship; company; fellowship; society
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("fellowship" is a kind of...):
friendly relationship; friendship (the state of being friends (or friendly))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fellowship"):
freemasonry (a natural or instinctive fellowship between people of similar interests)
Derivation:
fellow (a friend who is frequently in the company of another)
Context examples:
It was all well enough in the Southland, under the law of love and fellowship, to respect private property and personal feelings; but in the Northland, under the law of club and fang, whoso took such things into account was a fool, and in so far as he observed them he would fail to prosper.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The ale-drinking, the rude good-fellowship, the heartiness, the laughter at discomforts, the craving to see the fight—all these may be set down as vulgar and trivial by those to whom they are distasteful; but to me, listening to the far-off and uncertain echoes of our distant past, they seem to have been the very bones upon which much that is most solid and virile in this ancient race was moulded.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
National Research Service Awards (NRSA) are made to individual fellowship applicants selected for award as a result of national competition for research training in specified health-related areas.
(Individual National Research Service Award, NCI Thesaurus)
Now, with his thick and somewhat bowed legs stretched in front of the blaze, his green jerkin thrown open, and a great quart pot held in his corded fist, he looked the picture of comfort and of good-fellowship.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards NRSA individual postdoctoral fellowships (F32) to the most promising applicants to support full-time research training related to the mission of the NIH awarding components.
(Individual National Research Service Award, NCI Thesaurus)
