Fellowship \Fel"low*ship\, n. [Fellow + -ship.]
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. --Bacon.
Men are made for society and mutual fellowship.
--Calamy.
3. A state of being together; companionship; partnership;
association; hence, confederation; joint interest.
The great contention of the sea and skies Parted our
fellowship. --Shak.
Fellowship in pain divides not smart. --Milton.
Fellowship in woe doth woe assuage. --Shak.
The goodliest fellowship of famous knights, Whereof
this world holds record. --Tennyson.
4. Those associated with one, as in a family, or a society; a
company.
The sorrow of Noah with his fellowship. --Chaucer.
With that a joyous fellowship issued Of minstrels.
--Spenser.
5. (Eng. & Amer. Universities) A foundation for the
maintenance, on certain conditions, of a scholar called a
fellow, who usually resides at the university.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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