Definition of "fellowship" in 英语

noun

1. A company of people that share the same interest or aim.

   • The Fellowship of the Ring

2. (dated) Company, companions; a group of people or things following another.

3. A feeling of friendship, relatedness or connection between people.

   • The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

4. (education) A merit-based scholarship.

5. (education) A temporary position at an academic institution with limited teaching duties and ample time for research.

6. (medicine) 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.

7. (arithmetic, archaic) The proportional division of profit and loss among partners.

verb

1. (transitive) To admit to fellowship, enter into fellowship with; to make feel welcome by showing friendship or building a cordial relationship. Now only in religious use.

   • The Bishop's family fellowshipped the new converts.
   • The Society of Religious Snobs refused to fellowship the poor family.
   • Then pes seynge hir sistris alle in acorde...she turnid ayene; For whenne contencions & styf wer' cessid, then pes was felashipid among hem. Then Peace saw her sisters all in accord...she turned again; for when contentions and strife were ceased, then Peace was fellowshipped among them.

2. (intransitive, now chiefly religious, especially in Canada, US) To join in fellowship; to associate with.

   • The megachurch he attends is too big for making personal connections, so he also fellowships weekly in one of the church's small groups.
   • After she got married, she stopped fellowshipping with the singles in our church.
   • Oure lorde Jesu came in manere of a pilgrym and felauschipped [Aldh felischippede] with hem. Our lord Jesus came in the manner of a pilgrim and fellowshipped with them.