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neighborship en · NOUN

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”).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) A community, connection, or relationship between or among people and/or things which is based simply on being of a similar class.
   • 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:
   • 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:

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