Fellowship Definition

fĕlō-shĭp
fellowships
noun
fellowships
The companionship of individuals in a congenial atmosphere and on equal terms.
A voracious reader who found fellowship in a book club.
American Heritage
Companionship; friendly association.
Webster's New World
Friendship; comradeship.
A strong fellowship developed among them.
American Heritage
A mutual sharing, as of experience, activity, interest, etc.
Webster's New World
A group of people with the same interests; company; brotherhood.
Webster's New World
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verb
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.
Wiktionary
(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.
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fellowship
Plural:
fellowships

Origin of Fellowship

  • fellow +‎ -ship

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Fellowship Sentence Examples

  • In 1838 he gained a fellowship, and graduated with first-class honours in 1839.

  • He gained a fellowship at New College in 1657, and proceeded B.A.

  • In 1846 he was elected to a fellowship and took orders.

  • The New Testament joins on not to the post-exile prophets, who are only faint echoes of earlier seers, but to Jeremiah's great idea of the new covenant in which God's law is written on the individual heart, and the community of faith is the fellowship of all to whom He has thus spoken.

  • The prophets of the restoration are only the last waves beating on the shore after the storm which destroyed the old nation, but created in its room a fellowship of spiritual religion, had passed over; they resemble the old prophets in the same imperfect way in which the restored community of Jerusalem resembled a real nation.

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