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