fellowship

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noun

fel·low·ship ˈfe-lə-ˌship

-lō-

Synonyms of fellowship next

: companionship, company

looking for the fellowship of friendly people

: community of interest, activity, feeling, or experience

their fellowship in crime—

A. J. Ayer

: the state of being a fellow or associate

: a company of equals or friends : association

a youth fellowship

: the quality or state of being comradely

meaningful communication for building trust and fellowship

obsolete : membership, partnership

: the position of a fellow (as of a university)

applied for a research fellowship in physics

: the stipend of a fellow

: a foundation for the providing of such a stipend

fellowship

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verb

fellowshipped also fellowshiped ˈfe-lə-ˌshipt

-lō-

; fellowshipping also fellowshiping ˈfe-lə-ˌshi-piŋ

-lō-

intransitive verb

: to join in fellowship especially with a church member

transitive verb

: to admit to fellowship (as in a church)

Example Sentences

Noun traditions that bind us together in fellowship members of a law firm who violated just about every ethical principle that the legal fellowship holds dear

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Savary also believed the Earth’s resources and the fellowship created by commerce were God-given. —

Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023 Wall completed her fellowship and residency at both Columbia University and Cornell University, and has worked with refugees and volunteered in hospitals around the world. —

Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2023 Today Battsengel is completing a policy fellowship at Oxford University and runs Girls Code, which teaches girls from disadvantaged communities and nomadic families computer programming. —

Barbara Ortutay, ajc, 28 Feb. 2023 The wooden world of a ship—a world bound by the Navy’s rigid regulations and the laws of the sea and, most of all, by the hardened fellowship of men—had provided him a refuge. —

David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023 However, those physicians who perform gender-affirmation surgeries do not need to complete a specialized gender-affirmation surgery fellowship, leading to mixed results for patients. —

Suzy Katz, Allure, 7 Feb. 2023 He was subsequently expelled from the National Academy, and his fellowship at the American Association for the Advancement was withdrawn. —

Cornelia Dean, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2023 Someone or some groups of people formally submitted Saddleback Church for inquiry by the credentials committee to examine whether or not the church had fallen out of close fellowship with Southern Baptists. —

Deborah Netburn Los Angeles Times (tns), al, 1 Mar. 2023 Someone or some groups of people formally submitted Saddleback Church for inquiry by the credentials committee to examine whether or not the church had fallen out of close fellowship with Southern Baptists. —

Deborah Netburnstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2023

Verb

Bring your favorite breakfast dish to share and enjoy this time to fellowship with your church family. —

Becca Martin-brown, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2022 But, with both of those gatherings based in Los Angeles, there wasn’t a similar opportunity for Black women to fellowship in New York City — and there certainly wasn’t an event catered specifically to the Broadway community. —

Angelique Jackson, Variety, 1 June 2022 Digital Grow Groups are made up of five or more people who gather weekly via Zoom to discuss sermons, the bible and just to fellowship and talk about life! —

Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2021 After the rosary, the guests and dancers fellowship with food and warm drinks. —

Carmina Tiscareño, Dallas News, 11 Dec. 2020 As a young orthopedic surgeon traveling to fellowship training in Philadelphia, I was stopped by a New Jersey state trooper. —

WSJ, 8 June 2020 See More

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