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lurkerships

lurkerships is the plural of lurkership.

Meaning of lurkership

Noun

lurkership (countable and uncountable, plural lurkerships)

  1. (Internet, uncountable) The state or quality of being a lurker.
    • I'm going back into lurkership - but I'll probably pop up from time to time, be warned!1999 March 16, TragedyTrousers [username], “Re: back home to a new world - the world of modems”, in uk.games.computer.quake2 (Usenet)
  2. (Internet, countable) The lurkers who frequent a newsgroup, message board, etc., taken as a group.
    • This newsgroup might have a higher lurkership than normal because of the theat^([sic]) of harassment from the cult, the general level of flammage and spam, and the controversial nature of the topic.1996 December 2, Martin Hunt, “Re: Nobody cares what cult critics think”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet)

Questions about lurkerships

What is lurkerships the plural of?
Lurkerships is the plural of lurkership.

Words near lurkerships in the dictionary

  1. lurked
  2. lurker
  3. lurkerdom
  4. lurkers
  5. lurkership
  6. lurkerships
  7. lurkest
  8. lurketh
  9. lurkiness
  10. lurking
  11. lurkingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lurkerships (page history and authors); lurkership (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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