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Neighborship

noun

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Noun
  1. 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. countable, uncountable

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

  2. 2
    A community, connection, or relationship between or among people and/or things which is based simply on being of a similar class. countable, uncountable

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

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”).

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