neighborship · 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.
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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”).
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.e.g.“… 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:
- A community, connection, or relationship between or among people and/or things which is based simply on being of a similar class.e.g.“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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