neighborship

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neighborship

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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”).

noun neighborships · neighbourship

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."
countable, uncountable 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.

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@misc{neighborship_2026,
  title = {neighborship},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/neighborship},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}