neighbourship
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The state or condition of being neighbours; a connection or relationship between people or things which is based simply on living close geographically.
Example Sentences
- "He called to his mind and said: "Surely the Ant had in former days his dwelling underneath this tree, and was busy in hoarding a store of provision: now I will lay my wants before her, and, in the name of good neighbourship, and with an appeal to her generosity, beg some small relief."
- "The travelling artist they knew, the pedlar, the insurance agent, and the cockney beanfeaster; but the stranger who desired permanent neighbourship with them they knew not; him they treated as a lunatic at large."
- "Their conveyance is no handsome carriage, but a rickety dog-cart, unmistakably betraying its neighbourship to the carts and ploughs of some rural farmyard."
Etymology
From Northern Middle English nychtbourschype, neȝeborusipe, equivalent to neighbour + -ship. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Noaberskup (“neighbourship”), West Frisian neibuorskip (“neighbourship”), Dutch nabuurschap (“neighbourship”), German Low German Naberskupp, Naverschop (“neighbourhood; neighbourship”), German Nachbarschaft (“neighbourship; neighborhood”), Danish naboskab (“neighbourship”), Swedish naboskap (“neighbourship”).