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neighborship

neighborship noun: the state or condition of being neighbors; a community, connection, or relationship between or among people and/or things which is based simply on living close geographically.

Noun

neighborship (countable and uncountable, plural neighborships)

  1. The state or condition of being neighbors; a community, connection, or relationship between or among people and/or things which is based simply on living close geographically.
    • … the telephone had introduced the "epoch of neighborship without propinquity."1990, Carolyn Marvin, “Community and Class Order”, in When Old Technologies Were New, Oxford Univ. Press, →ISBN, page 66
  2. A community, connection, or relationship between or among people and/or things which is based simply on being of a similar class.
    • The 802.11b spec takes pretty good care to enforce good neighborship on connected hosts.2002 December 27, Cory Doctorow, “WiFi: What threat?”, in BoingBoing, retrieved 01 Feb 2012
    • But we believe that Cambridge is really the heart of oncology today. And we intend to benefit from this as an environment – as a neighborship.2010 February 10, Hanspeter Spek, President, Global Operations, “Sanofi-Aventis Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript”, in Seeking Alpha, retrieved 05 Feb 2012

Forms of neighborship

pluralneighborships
alternative formneighbourship

Origin of neighborship

From Northern Middle English nychtbourschype, neȝeborusipe, equivalent to neighbor + -ship. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Noaberskup (“neighborship”), West Frisian neibuorskip (“neighborship”), Dutch nabuurschap (“neighborship”), German Low German Naberskupp, Naverschop (“neighborhood; neighborship”), German Nachbarschaft (“neighborship; neighborhood”), Danish naboskab (“neighborship”), Swedish naboskap (“neighborship”).

Questions about neighborship

What does neighborship mean?
Neighborship means the state or condition of being neighbors; a community, connection, or relationship between or among people and/or things which is based simply on living close geographically.
What part of speech is neighborship?
Neighborship is a noun.
What is the plural of neighborship?
The plural of neighborship is neighborships.

Words near neighborship in the dictionary

  1. neighborliness
  2. neighborly
  3. neighborred
  4. neighbors
  5. Neighborses
  6. neighborship
  7. neighborships
  8. neighbour
  9. neighboure
  10. neighboured
  11. neighboures

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