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-ship (s̸hip)

  1. the quality, condition, or state of being hardship, friendship
    1. the rank or office of professorship
    2. a person having the rank or status of lordship
  3. ability or skill as statesmanship
  4. all individuals (of the specified class) collectively readership

Etymology: ME < OE -scipe (akin to Ger -schaft, Du -scap) < base of scieppan, to create: see shape

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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