different between concord vs fellowship

English

Etymology 1

From French concorde, Latin concordia, from concors (“of the same mind, agreeing”); con- + cor, cordis (“heart”). See heart, and compare accord.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?n.k??d/, /?k??.k??d/

Noun

concord (countable and uncountable, plural concords)

1. A state of agreement; harmony; union.
2. (obsolete) Agreement by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or league
   • 1612, Sir John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued

     the concord made between King Henry II and Roderick O'Connor

3. (grammar) Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person or case.
4. (law, obsolete) An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which it should pass, being an acknowledgment that the land in question belonged to the complainant. See fine.

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5. (probably influenced by chord, music) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.

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Translations

Etymology 2

After Concord, Massachusetts, where the variety was developed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?n.k??d/

Noun

concord (plural concords)

1. A variety of sweet American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters; a Concord grape.

Etymology 3

From French concorder, from Latin concord?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?k??d/

Verb

concord (third-person singular simple present concords, present participle concording, simple past and past participle concorded)

1. (intransitive) To agree; to act together

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English

Etymology

From Middle English felowschipe, felawshipe, fela?schyp, equivalent to fellow +? -ship; or perhaps adapted from Old Norse félagskapr, félagsskapr (“fellowship”). Compare Icelandic félagsskapur (“companionship, company, community”), Danish fællesskab (“fellowship”), Norwegian fellesskap (“fellowship”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f?l???p/, /?f?l????p/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f?l???p/, /?f?lo???p/
• Hyphenation: fel?low?ship

Noun

fellowship (countable and uncountable, plural fellowships)

1. A company of people that share the same interest or aim.

2. (dated) Company, companions; a group of people or things following another.
3. A feeling of friendship, relatedness or connection between people.
4. A merit-based scholarship.
5. A temporary position at an academic institution with limited teaching duties and ample time for research; this may also be called a postdoc.
6. (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.
7. (arithmetic, archaic) The proportional division of profit and loss among partners.

Translations

Verb

fellowship (third-person singular simple present fellowships, present participle fellowshipping or fellowshiping, simple past and past participle fellowshipped or fellowshiped)

1. (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.

   The Society of Religious Snobs refused to fellowship the poor family.

   • c. 1524, Sidney John Hervon Herrtage (editor), The early English versions of the Gesta Romanorum, first edition (1879), anthology, published for The Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., translation of Gesta Romanorum by anon., xxxiv. 135, (Harl. MS. c.1440), page 135:

     Then pes seynge hir sistris alle in acorde...she turnid ayene; For whenne contencions & styf wer' cessid, then pes was felashipid among hem.

     Then Peace saw her sisters all in accord...she turned again; for when contentions and strife were ceased, then Peace was fellowshipped among them.

2. (intransitive, now chiefly religious, especially in Canada, US) To join in fellowship; to associate with.

   The megachurch he attends is too big for making personal connections, so he also fellowships weekly in one of the church's small groups.

   After she got married, she stopped fellowshipping with the singles in our church.

   • c. 1410, Hans Kurath quoting Nicholas Love (translator), The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, fifth edition (1989), quoted in Middle English Dictionary, translation of Meditationes Vitae Christi by Pseudo-Bonaventura, (Gibbs MS. c.1400), page 463:

     Oure lorde Jesu came in manere of a pilgrym and felauschipped [Aldh felischippede] with hem.

     Our lord Jesus came in the manner of a pilgrim and fellowshipped with them.

Derived terms

• unfellowship