fellowship

FEL'LOWSHIP, noun 1. Companionship; society; consort; mutual association of persons on equal and friendly terms; familiar intercourse. Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. Ephesians 5:11. 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. 1 John 1:3. 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.