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.