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-ship

a native English suffix of nouns denoting condition, character, office, skill, etc.: clerkship; friendship; statesmanship.

Origin:
ME, OE -scipe; akin to shape; c. dial. Fris, dial. D schip

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Language Translation for : -ship

Spanish:

barco, buque, navío, embarcación,

German:

das Schiff,

Japanese:

船

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-ship
suff.

1. Quality, state, or condition: scholarship.
2. Something that shows or possesses a quality, state, or condition: courtship.
Rank, status, or office: professorship.
Art, skill, or craft: penmanship.
A collective body: readership.

[Middle English, from Old English -scipe.]

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-ship

O.E. -sciepe, Anglian -scip "state, condition of being," from P.Gmc. *-skapaz (cf. O.N. -skapr, O.Fris. -skip, Du. -schap, Ger. -schaft), from base *skap- "to create, ordain, appoint." Cognate with O.E. gesceape (see shape).

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Ship Bottom, NJ (borough, FIPS 67110) Location: 39.64510 N, 74.18327 W
Population (1990): 1352 (2084 housing units)
Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water)

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-ship

Friend"ship\, n. [AS. fre['o]ndscipe. See Friend, and -ship.]

1. The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will.

There is little friendship in the world. --Bacon.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. --Rambler.

Preferred by friendship, and not chosen by sufficiency. --Spenser.

2. Kindly aid; help; assistance, [Obs.]

Some friendship will it [a hovel] lend you gainst the tempest. --Shak.

3. Aptness to unite; conformity; affinity; harmony; correspondence. [Obs.]

Those colors . . . have a friendship with each other. --Dryden.