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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Fel·low·ship 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.   --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.
 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.   --Shak.