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/fˈɛloʊʃˌɪp/ Listen

noun

Fellowship n.

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." "Men are made for society and mutual fellowship."

3.

A state of being together; companionship; partnership; association; hence, confederation; joint interest. "The great contention of the sea and skies Parted our fellowship." "Fellowship in pain divides not smart". "Fellowship in woe doth woe assuage". "The goodliest fellowship of famous knights, Whereof this world holds record."

4.

Those associated with one, as in a family, or a society; a company. "The sorrow of Noah with his fellowship." "With that a joyous fellowship issued Of minstrels."

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.

Good fellowship, companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. "There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee."

verb

Fellowship v. t. (past & past part. fellowshiped; pres. part. fellowshiping) (Eccl.) To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian fellowship.

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"Fellowship" Quotes from Famous Books

... deck. At any rate, he took it for no more than a rough joke, and rolled about ecstatically, squirming vermicularly, in anticipation of what new delights of play were to be visited upon him. He reached out, with an enticing growl of good fellowship, for Michael, who was now free on deck, and received in return a ...

— Michael, Brother of Jerry • Jack London

... even her mother dreamed how she rebelled at remaining here. She was lonely, uninterested, vaguely homesick. She missed the intimate companionship of Eliza; she missed Dan's extravagant courting and O'Neil's grave, respectful attentions. She also felt the loss of the honest good-fellowship of all those people at Omar whom she had learned to like and to admire. Life here was colorless, and was still haunted by the shadow of that thing from which she and her ...

— The Iron Trail • Rex Beach

... happens that those upon whom has come some inconsolable trouble of spirit seek, as though it were a medicine to drive away their sadness, far and sequestered retreats, and cannot bear the greatness of their grief amid the fellowship of men; so dear, for the most part, is solitude to sickness. For filthiness and grime are chiefly pleasing to those who have been stricken with ailments of the soul. Now he had been wont to give out from the top of a hill decrees ...

— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")

... life. He regretted the clink of sabre and spurs on a fine afternoon, the barrack-room witticisms, the girls of garrison towns; but, besides, he had also a sense of grievance. He was evidently a much ill-used man. This made him moody, at times. But the two men got on well together in the fellowship of their stupidity and laziness. Together they did nothing, absolutely nothing, and enjoyed the sense of the idleness for which they were paid. And in time they came to feel something resembling affection ...

— Tales of Unrest • Joseph Conrad

... up, though tears were streaming yet, to give that full happy answer of the eye that no words could do. This was consolation, and sympathy. The two children had a perfect understanding of each other from that time forward, a fellowship that never knew ...

— Queechy, Volume I • Elizabeth Wetherell

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