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.
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