Definition of Fellowship

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Fellowship

The state or relation of being or associate.

Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse.

A state of being together; companionship; partnership; association; hence, confederation; joint interest.

Those associated with one, as in a family, or a society; a company.

A foundation for the maintenance, on certain conditions, of a scholar called a fellow, who usually resides at the university.

The rule for dividing profit and loss among partners; -- called also partnership, company, and distributive proportion.

To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian fellowship.

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Fellowship Quotations

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
Virginia Woolf

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.
Marian Wright Edelman

Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men.
Herbert Baxter Adams

May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.
Pierre de Coubertin

I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.
Chen Ning Yang

I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.
Jim Jarmusch

The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament.
Rowan D. Williams

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.
Mariel Hemingway

Fellowship Translations

fellowship in German is Kameradschaft
fellowship in Latin is sodalitas
fellowship in Norwegian is fellesskap, kameratskap
fellowship in Swedish is gemenskap

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