Etymology

readership

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Today it means: The collected readers of a publication. Full definition →

Proto-Germanic *skapjaną ← English reader
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  1. Englishreader
  2. Proto-Germanic*skapjaną
  3. English todayreadership

From reader + -ship.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.