fellowship

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The condition of sharing similar interests, ideals, or experiences, as by reason of profession, religion, or nationality.
2. n. The companionship of individuals in a congenial atmosphere and on equal terms.
3. n. A close association of friends or equals sharing similar interests.
4. n. Friendship; comradeship.
5. n. The financial grant made to a fellow in a college or university.
6. n. The status of having been awarded such a grant.
7. n. A foundation established for the awarding of such a grant.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The condition or relation of being a fellow or associate; mutual association of persons on equal and friendly terms; communion: as, the fellowship of the saints; church fellowship.
2. n. The state or condition of sharing in common; intimate association; joint interest; partnership: as, fellowship in loss.
3. n. A body of fellows or companions; an association of persons having the same tastes, occupations, or interests; a band; a company; a guild: as, the fellowship of civil engineers.
4. n. In arithmetic, the rule of proportions by which the accounts of partners in business are adjusted, so that each partner may have a share of gain, or sustain a share of loss, in proportion to his part of the stock. It proceeds upon the principle established in the doctrine of proportion, that the sum of all the antecedents of any number of equal ratios is to the sum of all the consequents as any one of the antecedents is to its consequent.
5. n. A station of privilege and emolument in English colleges which entitles the holder (called a fellow) to a share in their revenues. In Oxford and Cambridge the fellowships were either constituted by the original founders of the colleges to which they belong, or they have been since endowed. In almost all cases their holders must have taken at least the first degree of bachelor of arts, or of students in the civil law. Fellowships vary in value from about £30 to £250 a year and upward, and they all confer upon their holders the right to apartments in the college, and certain privileges as to commons or meals. Though many fellowships are tenable for life, in general they are forfeited upon attainment by the holder of a certain position in the church or at the bar, or upon his marriage. In this last case, however, a fellow may retain his fellowship by a special vote of the college. Except in the single case of Downing College, Cambridge, where graduates of Oxford and Cambridge are eligible, fellowships are confined to graduates of the university to which they belong.
6. n. In colleges and universities of the United States, a scholarship or sum of money granted for one or more years to a graduate student to enable him to pursue his studies either at that college or university or abroad.
7. To have fellowship with; admit to fellowship; associate with as a fellow or member of the same body; specifically, to unite with in doctrine and discipline as members of the same sect or church.
8. To be joined in fellowship.

Wiktionary

1. n. A company of people that shares the same interest or aim.
2. n. A feeling of friendship, relatedness or connection between people.
3. n. A merit-based scholarship.
4. n. A temporary position at an academic institution with limited teaching duties and ample time for research; this may also be called a postdoc.
5. n. 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.
6. n. Christianity Spiritual communion with a divine being.
7. v. 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.
8. v. intransitive To join in fellowship; to associate with. Now only in religious use, and chiefly U.S.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The state or relation of being or associate.
2. n. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse.
3. n. A state of being together; companionship; partnership; association; hence, confederation; joint interest.
4. n. Those associated with one, as in a family, or a society; a company.
5. n. (Eng. & Amer. Universities) A foundation for the maintenance, on certain conditions, of a scholar called a fellow, who usually resides at the university.
6. n. (Arith.) The rule for dividing profit and loss among partners; -- called also partnership, company, and distributive proportion.
7. v. (Eccl.) To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian fellowship.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an association of people who share common beliefs or activities
2. n. money granted (by a university or foundation or other agency) for advanced study or research
3. n. the state of being with someone