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wordship

wordship noun: the state, condition, or status of a word.

Noun

wordship (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The state, condition, or status of a word.
    • "But it expressed his thought perfectly then to all English-speaking people, and does so now, and is a participial adjective correctly formed. It is unknown to custom, but it has all the conditions of wordship, and is a much better English word than very many in "Webster's Dictionary."1883, Richard Grant White, Words and Their Uses, Past and Present, page 200

Origin of wordship

From word + -ship.

Questions about wordship

What does wordship mean?
Wordship means the state, condition, or status of a word.
What part of speech is wordship?
Wordship is a noun.

Words near wordship in the dictionary

  1. wordsearch
  2. wordsearches
  3. wordshape
  4. wordshapes
  5. wordshaping
  6. wordship
  7. wordsize
  8. wordsizes
  9. Wordsley
  10. wordsman
  11. wordsmanship

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