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follower-ship

follower-ship is the alternative form of followership.

Meaning of followership

Noun

followership (countable and uncountable, plural followerships)

  1. An adherence to a leader.
    • The Prime Minister talks about setting out his vision of the country, but he has to wait for us to tell him what it is. That is not leadership of this country — it is followership, Prime Minister. It is not strong, Prime Minister, it is weak.2007 October 9, George Osborne MP (in the Tory Opposition), “Pre-Budget Report and Comprehensive Spending Review”, in Hansard
  2. A group of followers.

Forms of follower-ship

pluralfollower-ships

Questions about follower-ship

What is follower-ship the alternative form of?
Follower-ship is the alternative form of followership.

Words near follower-ship in the dictionary

  1. followee
  2. followees
  3. Followell
  4. Followells
  5. follower
  6. follower-ship
  7. followers
  8. followership
  9. followerships
  10. followest
  11. followeth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: follower-ship (page history and authors); followership (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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