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^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3], 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.