fellowship
English
/ˈfɛləʃɪp/, /ˈfɛləʃɪp/
noun
Definitions
- A company of people that share the same interest or aim.
- (dated) Company, companions; a group of people or things following another.
- A feeling of friendship, relatedness or connection between people.
- A merit-based scholarship.
- A temporary position at an academic institution with limited teaching duties and ample time for research; this may also be called a postdoc.
- (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.
- (arithmetic) The proportional division of profit and loss among partners.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English felowschipe suffix from English fellow derived from Old Norse félagskapr.
Origin
Old Norse
félagskapr
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Oddfellow English
- bedfellow English
- blackfellow English
- byfellow English
- classfellow English
- coachfellow English
- disfellowship English
- disfellowshipment English
- fellow English
- fellowcraft English
- fellowess English
- fellowfeel English
- fellowless English
- fellowlike English
- fellowly English
- housefellow English
- namefellow English
- pewfellow English
- playfellow English
- race-fellow English
- schoolfellow English
- underfellow English
- unfellow English
- unfellowship English
- whitefellow English
- workfellow English
- yokefellow English
- フェローシップ Japanese
- felowe Middle English
- felowschipe Middle English
- félagskapr Old Norse
- fælles Danish
- fællesskab Danish
- faalaa Fiji Hindi
- fellow
- byfellow
- unfellow
- fellowly
- fellowess
- bedfellow
- pewfellow
- Oddfellow
- yokefellow
- fellowlike
- fellowless
- fellowfeel
- playfellow
- workfellow
- namefellow
- blackfellow
- fellowcraft
- race-fellow
- whitefellow
- classfellow
- housefellow
- underfellow
- coachfellow
- schoolfellow
- unfellowship
- disfellowship
- disfellowshipment