Home › Words › P › publishershippublishershippublishership means the state or business of a publisher.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, publishership ranks #31,465 of 42,752 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom publisher + -ship.nounThe state or business of a publisher.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.publisher 65% match — A person or (especially) a company who publishes, especially books. vs publishership →purchasership 65% match — The state or business of a purchaser. vs publishership →reportership 62% match — The role or business of a reporter. vs publishership →buyership 61% match — The state or business of a buyer. vs publishership →brewership 61% match — The role or status of brewer. vs publishership →publishability 59% match — The property of being publishable. vs publishership →copublish 59% match — To have credit as a publisher of (a work published by another). vs publishership →editorship 58% match — The position or job of being an editor vs publishership →