'Fellowship' definitions:
Definition of 'fellowship'
(from WordNet)
noun
An association of people who share common beliefs or activities; "the message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company family"; "the church welcomed new members into its fellowship" [syn: family, fellowship]
noun
The state of being with someone; "he missed their company"; "he enjoyed the society of his friends" [syn: company, companionship, fellowship, society]
noun
Money granted (by a university or foundation or other agency) for advanced study or research
Definition of 'Fellowship'
From: GCIDE
- Fellowship \Fel"low*ship\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fellowshiped; p. pr. & vb. n.. Fellowshiping.] (Eccl.) To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian fellowship. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fellowship'
From: GCIDE
- Fellowship \Fel"low*ship\, n. [Fellow + -ship.]
- 1. The state or relation of being or associate. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. [1913 Webster]
- In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- Men are made for society and mutual fellowship. --Calamy. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A state of being together; companionship; partnership; association; hence, confederation; joint interest. [1913 Webster]
- The great contention of the sea and skies Parted our fellowship. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Fellowship in pain divides not smart. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Fellowship in woe doth woe assuage. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The goodliest fellowship of famous knights, Whereof this world holds record. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Those associated with one, as in a family, or a society; a company. [1913 Webster]
- The sorrow of Noah with his fellowship. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- With that a joyous fellowship issued Of minstrels. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Eng. & Amer. Universities) A foundation for the maintenance, on certain conditions, of a scholar called a fellow, who usually resides at the university. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Arith.) The rule for dividing profit and loss among partners; -- called also partnership, company, and distributive proportion. [1913 Webster]
- Good fellowship, companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. [1913 Webster]
- There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'fellowship'
From: Easton
- Fellowship
- With God, consisting in the knowledge of his will (Job 22:21; John 17:3); agreement with his designs (Amos 3:2); mutual affection (Rom. 8: 38, 39); enjoyment of his presence (Ps. 4:6); conformity to his image (1 John 2:6; 1:6); and participation of his felicity (1 John 1:3, 4; Eph. 3:14-21).
- Of saints with one another, in duties (Rom. 12:5; 1 Cor. 12:1; 1 Thess. 5:17, 18); in ordinances (Heb. 10:25; Acts 2:46); in grace, love, joy, etc. (Mal. 3:16; 2 Cor. 8:4); mutual interest, spiritual and temporal (Rom. 12:4, 13; Heb. 13:16); in sufferings (Rom. 15:1, 2; Gal. 6:1, 2; Rom. 12:15; and in glory (Rev. 7:9).
Synonyms of 'fellowship'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accord,
- accordance,
- affability,
- affiliation,
- affinity,
- agape,
- agreement,
- aid,
- alignment,
- alimony,
- alliance,
- allotment,
- allowance,
- amalgamation,
- amicability,
- amity,
- annuity,
- assistance,
- association,
- belonging,
- bipartisanship,
- bloc,
- body,
- bonds of harmony,
- boon companionship,
- bounty,
- branch,
- brotherhood,
- brotherliness,
- brotherly love,
- cahoots,
- camaraderie,
- caritas,
- cartel,
- cement of friendship,
- chair,
- chair of English,
- charity,
- chumship,
- church,
- circle,
- clan,
- clique,
- club,
- coaction,
- coadjuvancy,
- coadministration,
- coadunation,
- coagency,
- coalescence,
- coalition,
- cochairmanship,
- codirectorship,
- collaboration,
- collaborativeness,
- colleagueship,
- collectivism,
- collegialism,
- collegiality,
- collusion,
- combination,
- commensalism,
- commerce,
- common effort,
- common enterprise,
- communalism,
- communication,
- communion,
- communism,
- communitarianism,
- community,
- community of interest,
- community of interests,
- companionability,
- companionship,
- company,
- compatibility,
- complicity,
- comradery,
- comradeship,
- concert,
- concord,
- concordance,
- concurrence,
- confederacy,
- confederation,
- confraternity,
- confrerie,
- congeniality,
- congregation,
- congress,
- consociation,
- consolidation,
- consorting,
- consortium,
- consortship,
- conversation,
- converse,
- cooperation,
- cooperativeness,
- copartnership,
- copartnery,
- cordiality,
- correspondence,
- coterie,
- country club,
- denomination,
- depletion allowance,
- division,
- dole,
- duet,
- duumvirate,
- ecumenicalism,
- ecumenicism,
- ecumenism,
- empathy,
- esprit,
- esprit de corps,
- faction,
- familiarity,
- federation,
- feeling of identity,
- fellow feeling,
- financial assistance,
- fraternal order,
- fraternalism,
- fraternity,
- fraternization,
- freemasonry,
- frictionlessness,
- friendliness,
- friendship,
- fusion,
- good vibes,
- good vibrations,
- good-fellowship,
- grant,
- grant-in-aid,
- group,
- guaranteed annual income,
- guild,
- happy family,
- harmony,
- help,
- hobnobbing,
- hookup,
- hospitality,
- identity,
- inclusion,
- incorporation,
- integration,
- intercommunication,
- intercommunion,
- intercourse,
- intimacy,
- joining of forces,
- joint effort,
- joint operation,
- kindliness,
- kinship,
- league,
- like-mindedness,
- lodge,
- love,
- mass action,
- membership,
- merger,
- morale,
- mutual assistance,
- mutualism,
- mutuality,
- octet,
- offshoot,
- old-age insurance,
- oneness,
- order,
- organization,
- partaking,
- participation,
- partnership,
- party,
- peace,
- pecuniary aid,
- pension,
- persuasion,
- pooling,
- pooling of resources,
- preceptorship,
- price support,
- professorate,
- professorhood,
- professoriate,
- professorship,
- public assistance,
- public welfare,
- pulling together,
- quartet,
- quintet,
- rapport,
- rapprochement,
- readership,
- reciprocity,
- relief,
- religious order,
- retirement benefits,
- schism,
- scholarship,
- school,
- schoolmastery,
- secret society,
- sect,
- sectarism,
- segment,
- septet,
- set,
- sextet,
- sharing,
- sisterhood,
- sisterliness,
- sociability,
- social activity,
- social intercourse,
- social relations,
- society,
- sodality,
- solidarity,
- sorority,
- stipend,
- subsidization,
- subsidy,
- subvention,
- support,
- symbiosis,
- sympathy,
- symphony,
- synergism,
- synergy,
- tax benefit,
- teachership,
- team spirit,
- teamwork,
- tie-in,
- tie-up,
- togetherness,
- trio,
- triumvirate,
- troika,
- trust,
- tutelage,
- tutorage,
- tutorship,
- understanding,
- unification,
- union,
- unison,
- united action,
- unity,
- variety,
- version,
- warmth,
- welfare,
- welfare aid,
- welfare payments