In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
FELLOWSHIP
family, fellowship
(noun) an association of people who share common beliefs or activities; “the message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company family”; “the church welcomed new members into its fellowship”
fellowship
(noun) money granted (by a university or foundation or other agency) for advanced study or research
company, companionship, fellowship, society
(noun) the state of being with someone; “he missed their company”; “he enjoyed the society of his friends”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
fellowship (countable and uncountable, plural fellowships)
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, archaic) The proportional division of profit and loss among partners.
Verb
fellowship (third-person singular simple present fellowships, present participle fellowshiping or fellowshipping, simple past and past participle fellowshiped or fellowshipped)
(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.
(intransitive, now, chiefly, religious, especially, in North America) To join in fellowship; to associate with.
Source: Wiktionary
Fel"low*ship, n. Etym: [Fellow + -ship.]
1. The state or relation of being or associate.
2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods. Bacon. Men are made for society and mutual fellowship. Calamy.
3. A state of being together; companionship; partnership; association; hence, confederation; joint interest. The great contention of the sea and skies Parted our fellowship. Shak. Fellowship in pain divides not smart. Milton. Fellowship in woe doth woe assuage. Shak. The goodliest fellowship of famous knights, Whereof this world holds record. Tennyson.
4. Those associated with one, as in a family, or a society; a company. The sorrow of Noah with his fellowship. Chaucer. With that a joyous fellowship issued Of minstrels. Spenser.
5. (Eng. & Amer. Universities) A foundation for the maintenance, on certain conditions, of a scholar called a fellow, who usually resides at the university.
6. (Arith.) The rule for dividing profit and loss among partners; -- called also partnership, company, and distributive proportion.
Fel"low*ship, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fellowshiped (; p. pr. & vb. n.. Fellowshiping.]
Definition: (Eccl.) To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian fellowship.
Good fel"low*ship
Definition: companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Word of the Day
20 November 2024
ENEMA
(noun) an injection of a liquid through the anus to stimulate evacuation; sometimes used for diagnostic purposes
Coffee Trivia
