Group vs Fellowship - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between group and fellowship

is that group is to put together to form a group while fellowship is 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.
In intransitive terms the difference between group and fellowship
is that group is to come together to form a group while fellowship is to join in fellowship; to associate with. Now only in religious use, and chiefly U.S.

group
English

Alternative forms
* groupe (obsolete)
Noun
(en noun)
A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

* , chapter=5
, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Finland spreads word on schools , passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}

(group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.

(geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.

A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.

(astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.

(chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.

(chemistry) A functional entity consisting of certain atoms whose presence provides a certain property to a molecule, such as the methyl group.

(sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.

(military) An air force formation.

(geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.

(computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.

An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.

(music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.

(sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while at the same time not playing teams that belong to other sets in the division.

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Synonyms
* (number of things or persons being in some relation to each other) collection, set * (people who perform music together) band, ensemble * See also
Hypernyms
* (in group theory) monoid
Derived terms
* Abelian group, abelian group * encounter group * factor group * free group * fundamental group * general linear group * girl group * group homomorphism * group isomorphism * group leader * group representation * group theory * Lie group * Local Group * minority group * p -group * pop group * quotient group * simple group * subgroup
Verb
(en verb)
To put together to form a group.

To come together to form a group.

Synonyms
* (put together to form a group) amass, categorise/categorize, classify, collect, collect up, gather, gather together, gather up
External links
* * 1000 English basic words
fellowship
English
(fellow)
Noun
(en noun)
A company of people that share the same interest or aim.

A feeling of friendship, relatedness or connection between people.

A merit-based scholarship.

A temporary position at an academic institution with limited teaching duties and ample time for research; this may also be called a postdoc.

(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.

(Christianity) Spiritual communion with a divine being.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. (2 Corinthians 13:14, ESV))

Verb

To admit to fellowship, enter into fellowship with; to make feel welcome by showing friendship or building a cordial relationship.

''The Bishop's family fellowshipped the new converts.

The Society of Religious Snobs refused to fellowship the poor, immigrant family.

* Sidney John Hervon Herrtage (editor), The early English versions of the Gesta Romanorum'', first edition (1879), anthology, published for The Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., translation of ''(Gesta Romanorum) by anon., xxxiv. 135, (Harl. MS. c.1440), page 135:

Then pes seynge hir sistris alle in acorde...she turnid ayene; For whenne contencions & styf wer' cessid, then pes was felashipid among hem.

*:: Then Peace saw her sisters all in accord...she turned again; for when contentions and strife were ceased, then Peace was fellowshipped among them.

To join in fellowship; to associate with.

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.

* (Hans Kurath) quoting (Nicholas Love) (translator), (The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ)'', fifth edition (1989), quoted in ''Middle English Dictionary'', translation of ''Meditationes Vitae Christi by (Pseudo-Bonaventura), (Gibbs MS. c.1400), page 463:

Oure lorde Jesu came in manere of a pilgrym and felauschipped' [Aldh ' felischippede ] with hem.

*:: Our lord Jesus came in the manner of a pilgrim and fellowshipped with them.