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Webster 1913 Edition

Fellowship

Fel′low-ship

,
Noun.
[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
.
Shakespeare
Fellowship
in pain divides not smart
Milton.
.
Fellowship
in woe doth woe assuage
Shakespeare
.
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.
Shakespeare

Fel′low-ship

,
Verb.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Fellowship

FEL'LOWSHIP

, n.
1.
Companionship; society; consort; mutual association of persons on equal and friendly terms; familiar intercourse.
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. Eph. 5.
Men are made for society and mutual fellowship.
2.
Association; confederacy; combination.
Most of the other christian princes were drawn into the fellowship of that war. [Unusual.]
3.
Partnership; joint interest; as fellowship in pain.
4.
Company; a state of being together.
The great contention of the sea and skies parted our fellowship.
5.
Frequency of intercourse.
In a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhoods.
6.
Fitness and fondness for festive entertainments; with good prefixed.
He had by his good fellowship - made himself popular, with all the officers of the army.
7.
Communion; intimate familiarity. 1John 1.
8.
In arithmetic, the rule of proportions, by which the accounts of partners in business are adjusted, so that each partner may have a share of gain or sustain a share of loss, in proportion to his part of the stock.
9.
An establishment in colleges, for the maintenance of a fellow.

Definition 2024

fellowship

fellowship

English

Noun

fellowship ‎(countable and uncountable, plural fellowships)

  1. A company of people that share the same interest or aim.
  2. A feeling of friendship, relatedness or connection between people.
  3. A merit-based scholarship.
  4. A temporary position at an academic institution with limited teaching duties and ample time for research; this may also be called a postdoc.
  5. (medicine) A period of supervised, sub-specialty medical training in the United States and Canada that a physician may undertake after completing a specialty training program or residency.
  6. (Christianity) Spiritual communion with a divine being.
    The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.‎ (2 Corinthians 13:14, English Standard Version)

Translations

Verb

fellowship ‎(third-person singular simple present fellowships, present participle fellowshipping or fellowshiping, simple past and past participle fellowshipped or fellowshiped)

  1. (transitive) To admit to fellowship, enter into fellowship with; to make feel welcome by showing friendship or building a cordial relationship. Now only in religious use.
    The Bishop's family fellowshipped the new converts.
    The Society of Religious Snobs refused to fellowship the poor, immigrant family.
    • c. 1524, Sidney John Hervon Herrtage (editor), The early English versions of the Gesta Romanorum, first edition (1879), anthology, published for The Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., translation of Gesta Romanorum by anon., xxxiv. 135, (Harl. MS. c.1440), page 135:
      Then pes seynge hir sistris alle in acorde...she turnid ayene; For whenne contencions & styf wer' cessid, then pes was felashipid among hem.
      Then Peace saw her sisters all in accord...she turned again; for when contentions and strife were ceased, then Peace was fellowshipped among them.
  2. (intransitive) To join in fellowship; to associate with. Now only in religious use, and chiefly U.S.
    The megachurch he attends is too big for making personal connections, so he also fellowships weekly in one of the church's small groups.
    After she got married, she stopped fellowshipping with the singles in our church.

Etymology

From Middle English felowschipe, felawshipe, felaȝschip, equivalent to fellow +‎ -ship; or perhaps adapted from Old Norse félagskapr, félagsskapr ‎(“fellowship”). Compare Icelandic félagsskapur ‎(“companionship, company, community”), Danish fællesskab ‎(“fellowship”), Norwegian fellesskap ‎(“fellowship”).

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