neighborship

neighborship

English

Alternative forms

• neighbourship

Etymology

From neighbor +‎ -ship. Cognate with Dutch nabuurschap (“neighborship”), Low German Naberschaft (“neighborhood; neighborship”), German Nachbarschaft (“neighborship”), Swedish naboskap (“neighborship”).

Noun

neighborship (countable and uncountable, plural neighborships)

1. 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.
   • 1990, Carolyn Marvin, “Community and Class Order”, in When Old Technologies Were New‎, Oxford Univ. Press, →ISBN, page 66:

     … the telephone had introduced the "epoch of neighborship without propinquity."

2. A community, connection, or relationship between or among people and/or things which is based simply on being of a similar class.
   • 2002 December 27, Cory Doctorow, “WiFi: What threat?”, in BoingBoing‎, retrieved 2012-02-01:

     The 802.11b spec takes pretty good care to enforce good neighborship on connected hosts.

   • 2010 February 10, Hanspeter Spek, President, Global Operations, “Sanofi-Aventis Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript”, in Seeking Alpha‎, retrieved 2012-02-05:

     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.

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for neighborship in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)