neighborship

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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.

OriginMiddle English nychtbourschype →
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Meanings

nounneighborship (countable and uncountable, plural neighborships)

plural neighborships · alternative neighbourship

  1. countableuncountableThe 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. countableuncountableA 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.

    2002 December 27, Cory Doctorow, “WiFi: What threat?”, in BoingBoing, retrieved 01 Feb 2012
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    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

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
neighborhood

Origin

  1. Middle Englishnychtbourschype
  2. Englishneighborship

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”).

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APA

neighborship. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/neighborship

MLA

“neighborship.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/neighborship. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “neighborship,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/neighborship.

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