fellowship

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

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