fellowship vs herd

fellowship

verb
  • To join in fellowship; to associate with. 

  • 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. 

noun
  • A temporary position at an academic institution with limited teaching duties and ample time for research. 

  • 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 feeling of friendship, relatedness or connection between people. 

  • A merit-based scholarship. 

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

herd

verb
  • To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company. 

  • To manage, care for or guard a herd 

  • To act as a herdsman or a shepherd. 

  • To unite or associate in a herd 

  • To move or drive a herd. 

  • To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company. 

  • To form or put into a herd. 

noun
  • A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper. 

  • Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company. 

  • A crowd, a mass of people or things; a rabble. 

How often have the words fellowship and herd occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )