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understanding
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?nd??stand??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??nd??stænd??/
- Rhymes: -ænd??
- Hyphenation: un?der?stand?ing
Noun
understanding (countable and uncountable, plural understandings) (with of, but with for in sense of "sympathy")
- (gerund, uncountable) The act of one that understands or comprehends; comprehension; knowledge; discernment.
- (countable) Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.
- (countable) Opinion, judgement or outlook.
- (countable) An agreement of minds; harmony; something mutually understood or agreed upon.
- An informal contract; mutual agreement.
- A reconciliation of differences.
- An informal contract; mutual agreement.
- (uncountable) Sympathy.
Derived terms
- peace that passeth understanding
Translations
See also
- intellection
Adjective
understanding (comparative more understanding, superlative most understanding)
- Showing compassion.
- (dated) Knowing; skilful.
Translations
Verb
understanding
- present participle of understand
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fellowship
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)
- 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.
Translations
Verb
fellowship (third-person singular simple present fellowships, present participle fellowshipping or fellowshiping, simple past and past participle fellowshipped or fellowshiped)
- (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.
- Then pes seynge hir sistris alle in acorde...she turnid ayene; For whenne contencions & styf wer' cessid, then pes was felashipid among hem.
- (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.
- Oure lorde Jesu came in manere of a pilgrym and felauschipped [Aldh felischippede] with hem.
Derived terms
- unfellowship
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