fellowship

noun

1 a community bound together in fellowship:

companionship, companionability, sociability, comradeship, fraternization, camaraderie, friendship, mutual support, mutual respect, mutual liking;

amiability, amity, affability, geniality, kindliness, cordiality, intimacy;

social intercourse, social contact, association, closeness, togetherness, solidarity;

informal chumminess, palliness, clubbiness;

British, informal mateyness.

2 a new member of the church fellowship:

association, society, club, league, union, guild, lodge, affiliation, alliance, order, fraternity, brotherhood, sorority;

band, group, circle, ring, clan, set, coterie;

rare consociation, sodality.