Fellowship
['felə(ʊ)ʃɪp] or ['fɛloʃɪp]
Definition
(noun.) money granted (by a university or foundation or other agency) for advanced study or research.
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Definition
(n.) The state or relation of being or associate.
(n.) Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse.
(n.) A state of being together; companionship; partnership; association; hence, confederation; joint interest.
(n.) Those associated with one, as in a family, or a society; a company.
(n.) A foundation for the maintenance, on certain conditions, of a scholar called a fellow, who usually resides at the university.
(n.) The rule for dividing profit and loss among partners; -- called also partnership, company, and distributive proportion.
(v. t.) To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian fellowship.
Edited by Constantine
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Brotherhood, companionship, familiarity, intimacy, close acquaintance.[2]. Partnership, participation, joint interest.[3]. Sociability, sociableness, converse, intercourse, communion.
Typist: Nelly
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Association, membership, company, partnership, sociality, brotherhood,familiarity, intimacy, society, acquaintance
ANT:Severance, disconnection, dismemberment, Felonious,[See CRIMINAL]
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Examples
- And blessed are the men whom he calls to fellowship with him, bearing their cross after him with patience. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Nobody affects the character of liberality and good fellowship, by being profuse of a liquor which is as cheap as small beer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Yet, human fellowship infused some nourishment into the flinty viands, and struck some sparks of cheerfulness out of them. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The bar of the Six Jolly Fellowship Porters was a bar to soften the human breast. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And what do you say to his receiving the right hand of fellowship? Plato. The Republic.
- Come back to the ways of our common ancestors, come back to the light of kindliness and fellowship. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- A spirit of true fellowship prevailed in Gresham College, as the Society was sometimes called. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Then if I row up under the Fellowship and lay there, no need to whistle. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- At mid-day following he reappeared at the Six Jolly Fellowship Porters, in the character, not new to him, of a witness before a Coroner's Jury. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She answered in a tone of sad fellowship. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And I might as well have spoken to the iron funnel of the strongest sea-going steamer that passes the Fellowship Porters. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Fanny saw and pitied much of this in Julia; but there was no outward fellowship between them. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It solved many problems, and it left the desire for fellowship and order face to face with much vaster problems that it seemed only to have revealed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nothing could have seemed more irrelevant to Dorothea than insistence on her youth and sex when she was moved to show her human fellowship. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The Six Jolly Fellowships won't run away. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The Fellowships must not have a taint upon it that may give it a bad name. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Would you two gentlemen object to making a pretence of taking a glass of something in my company at the Fellowships? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It's the Fellowships, the 'ouse as I told you wouldn't run away. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- If I want you, I'll drop round under the Fellowships and tip you a whistle. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The Fellowships,' returned Miss Abbey, 'has itself to look to, as well as others. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They are both tarred with a dirty brush, and I can't have the Fellowships tarred with the same brush. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It has been hard work to establish order here, and make the Fellowships what it is, and it is daily and nightly hard work to keep it so. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But as this is the Fellowships, gentlemen, where the lights are, I recommend dropping the subject. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- If it turns out that he warn't at the Six Jolly Fellowships that night at midnight, I'm a liar. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Checker: Nellie