English Explanatory Dictionary

neighborship

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.
  2. A community, connection, or relationship between or among people and/or things which is based simply on being of a similar class.

Word forms

neighborship neighborships neighbourship

Etymology

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”).

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