2 entries under this word

Fellowship

Fĕl'lōw-ship, n.

noun

n. 1. The state or relation of being a fellow or associate. 2. Mutual association of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse; companionship. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhoods. Bacon. Men are made for society and mutual fellowship. Calamy. 3. Association; confederation; combination. [R.] Most of the other Christian princes were drawn into the fellowship of that war. Knolles. 4. Company; a state of being together. The great contention of the sea and skies Parted our fellowship. Shak. 5. Partnership in act or suffering, profit, success, or loss. Fellowship in pain divides not smart. Milton. 6. An association; a company; a band. With that a joyous fellowship issued Of minstrels. Spenser.

  1. (Eng. Universities.) A foundation for the maintenance, on certain conditions, of a resident scholar called a fellow.
  2. (Arith.) The regulation of commercial partnership; the rule for dividing profit and loss among partners.

Good fellowship, fondness for company; love of society; trustworthiness; kind behavior. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.

Fĕl'low-ship, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion; to have fellowship with; to admit to Christian fellowship. Bartlett.