FELLOWSHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fellowship mean? 

• FELLOWSHIP (noun)
  The noun FELLOWSHIP has 3 senses:

1. an association of people who share common beliefs or activities

2. the state of being with someone

3. money granted (by a university or foundation or other agency) for advanced study or research

  Familiarity information: FELLOWSHIP used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FELLOWSHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An association of people who share common beliefs or activities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

family; fellowship

Context example:

the church welcomed new members into its fellowship

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:

The state of being with someone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

companionship; company; fellowship; society

Context example:

he enjoyed the society of his friends

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)

Sense 3

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)

 Context examples 

"Why, yes, yes, dinner, you know—just pot luck with us, with your old superintendent, you rascal," he uttered nervously, poking Martin in an attempt at jocular fellowship.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Even to the peeling of potatoes and the washing of dishes,” I answered, “to say nothing to wringing their necks out of very fellowship.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Fanny saw and pitied much of this in Julia; but there was no outward fellowship between them.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The old soldiers and Hordle John strode off together in all good fellowship.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some specialized individual predoctoral fellowships (F31s and F30s) and Senior Fellowships (F33s) are also provided under the NRSA.

(Individual National Research Service Award, NCI Thesaurus)

They were for ever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) offers training fellowships to individuals who are interested in careers in cancer epidemiology, biostatistics, or genetics.

(Fellowship Programs, DCEG, NCI Thesaurus)

A professional society of physicians who limit their practice to radiation oncology, physicians currently enrolled in a fellowship program and radiation oncology physicists in all types of practices.

(American College of Radiation Oncology, NCI Thesaurus)

If my family are at length sensible of the deprivation to which their own conduct has, in the past, exposed them, and now desire to extend the hand of fellowship, let it not be repulsed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To provide senior fellowship support to established scientists who wish to make major changes in the direction of their research careers or who wish to broaden their scientific background by acquiring new research capabilities as independent research investigators in scientific health-related fields relevant to the missions of the NCI.

(National Research Service Award for Senior Fellows, NCI Thesaurus)