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.