Fellowship vs. Fraternity — What's the Difference?

The companionship of individuals in a congenial atmosphere and on equal terms

A fraternity (from Latin frater: "brother"; whence, "brotherhood") or fraternal organization is an organization, society, club or fraternal order traditionally of men associated together for various religious or secular aims. Fraternity in the Western concept developed in the Christian context, notably with the religious orders in the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages.

Friendship; comradeship

A body of people associated for a common purpose or interest, such as a guild.

A close association of friends or equals sharing similar interests

A group of people joined by similar backgrounds, occupations, interests, or tastes

The financial grant made to a fellow in a college or university.

A social organization at a college or university, traditionally consisting of male students and designated by Greek letters.

The status or position of one who is awarded such a grant.

Roman Catholic Church A sodality.

A company of people that share the same interest or aim.

The quality or condition of being brothers; brotherliness.

(dated) Company, companions; a group of people or things following another.

The quality of being brothers or brotherly; brotherhood.

A feeling of friendship, relatedness or connection between people.

A group of people associated for a common purpose.

(education) A merit-based scholarship.

(US) A social organization of male students at a college or university; usually identified by Greek letters.

(education) A temporary position at an academic institution with limited teaching duties and ample time for research.

The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood.

(medicine) A period of supervised, sub-specialty medical training in the United States and Canada that a physician may undertake after completing a specialty training program or residency.

A body of men associated for their common interest, business, or pleasure; a company; a brotherhood; a society; in the Roman Catholic Church, an association for special religious purposes, for relieving the sick and destitute, etc.

The proportional division of profit and loss among partners.

Men of the same class, profession, occupation, character, or tastes.

(transitive) 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.

A social club for male college undergraduates. They often have secret initiation rites, and are named by the use of two or three Greek letters. The corresponding association for women students is called a sorority.

To join in fellowship; to associate with.

A social club for male undergraduates

The state or relation of being or associate.

People engaged in a particular occupation;

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.

An association of people who share common beliefs or activities;

The state of being with someone;

Money granted (by a university or foundation or other agency) for advanced study or research