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Neighbourship

noun

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Noun

1
The state or condition of being neighbours; a connection or relationship between people or things which is based simply on living close geographically.
"He called to his mind and said: "Surely the Ant had in former days his dwelling underneath this tree, and was busy in hoarding a store of provision: now I will lay my wants before her, and, in the name of good neighbourship, and with an appeal to her generosity, beg some small relief."
2
A relationship between people and / or things which is based simply on being of a similar class.
"Their conveyance is no handsome carriage, but a rickety dog-cart, unmistakably betraying its neighbourship to the carts and ploughs of some rural farmyard."

Etymology

From Northern Middle English nychtbourschype, neȝeborusipe, equivalent to neighbour + -ship. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Noaberskup (“neighbourship”), West Frisian neibuorskip (“neighbourship”), Dutch nabuurschap (“neighbourship”), German Low German Naberskupp, Naverschop (“neighbourhood; neighbourship”), German Nachbarschaft (“neighbourship; neighborhood”), Danish naboskab (“neighbourship”), Swedish naboskap (“neighbourship”).

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