different between fellowship vs church

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

English

Alternative forms

• churche, chirche (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English chirche, from Old English ?iri?e (“church”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirik?, an early borrowing of Ancient Greek ???????? (kuriakón), neuter form of ???????? (kuriakós, “belonging to the lord”), from ?????? (kúrios, “ruler, lord”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ewH- (“to swell, spread out, be strong, prevail”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t????t??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t???t??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?

Noun

church (countable and uncountable, plural churches)

1. (countable) A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place. [from 9th c.]
2. Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity. [from 9th c.]
   • Acts 20:28, New International Version:

     Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.

3. (countable) A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general. [from 9th c.]
4. (countable) A particular denomination of Christianity. [from 9th c.]

5. (uncountable, countable, as bare noun) Christian worship held at a church; service. [from 10th c.]
6. (uncountable) Organized religion in general or a specific religion considered as a political institution.
7. (informal) Any religious group. [from 16th c.]
8. (obsolete) Assembly.

Usage notes

• Several senses of church are routinely used in prepositional phrases as a bare noun, without a determiner or article. This is like home and unlike house.
• (organized religion): Often capitalized as "(the) Church" without referring to a specific formal institution with that title.

Synonyms

• autem (obsolete, Britain, thieves’ cant)
• (building): chapel (small church), kirk (Scotland)
• (group of worshipers): congregation

Coordinate terms

• circle, fire temple, gurdwara, heiau, hof, House of Worship, jinja, mandir, monastery, mosque, synagogue, temple

Hypernyms

• (religious group): religion
• (house of worship): building

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Pages starting with “church”.

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ???? (carc)
• Pijin: sios
• Tok Pisin: sios

Translations

Verb

church (third-person singular simple present churches, present participle churching, simple past and past participle churched)

1. (transitive, Christianity, now historical) To conduct a religious service for (a woman after childbirth, or a newly married couple). [from 15th c.]
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, page 36:

     Nor did it [the Church] accept that the woman should stay indoors until she had been churched.

2. (transitive) To educate someone religiously, as in in a church.

Translations

Interjection

church

1. (slang) Expressing strong agreement.

   Synonym: preach

   - These burritos are the best!

   - Church!

See also

• Appendix:Ecclesiastical terms

References

• church on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Noun

church

1. Alternative form of chirche