neighborship
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A community, connection, or relationship between or among people and/or things which is based simply on being of a similar class.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "… the telephone had introduced the "epoch of neighborship without propinquity.""
- "The 802.11b spec takes pretty good care to enforce good neighborship on connected hosts."
- "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."
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”).