neighbourship noun2 •The state or condition of being neighbours; a connection or relationship between people or things which is based simply on living close geographically. •A relationship between people and / or things which is based simply on being of a similar class.Their conveyance is no handsome carriage, but a rickety dog-cart, unmistakably betraying its neighbourship to the carts and ploughs of some rural farmyard. — 1912 formsneighbourships