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Webster 1913 Edition

-ship

-ship

.

[OE.

-schipe

, AS.

-scipe

; akin to OFries.

-skipe

, OLG.

-skepi

, D.

-schap

, OHG.

-scaf

, G.

-schaft

. Cf.

,

Noun.

, and

.]

A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art; as in lordship, friendship, chancellorship, stewardship, horsemanship.

Definition 2024

-ship

-ship

See also: ship

English

Suffix

-ship

Appended to a noun to form a new noun denoting a property or state of being, or time spent in a role.

fellow → fellowship

owner → ownership

Synonyms

(property or state of being): -ness, -hood, -itude, -th, -ity, -dom

Derived terms

See Category:English words suffixed with -ship

Translations

Property or state of being

Armenian: -ություն ‎(-utʿyun)
Bulgarian: -ство ‎(-stvo)
Czech: -ství
Danish: -skab (da)
Dutch: -schap (nl)
Esperanto: -eco
Finnish: -us (fi)
Georgian:
German: -schaft (de)
Icelandic: -skapur
Ido: -eso
Italian: -ezza f, f pl, -ità f, f pl, -enza f
Khmer:
Macedonian: -ство ‎(-stvo)
Mongolian:

Norwegian:
Bokmål: -skap (no) m, n
Polish: -stwo n
Portuguese: -idade (pt) f
Romanian: -ie f, -itate f, -tate f, -ătate f
Russian: -ство ‎(-stvo)
Spanish: -azgo (es) m, -dad (es) f
Swedish: -skap (sv)
Thai:
Turkish: (depending on the last vowel:) -lık, -lik, -luk (tr), -lük
Vietnamese:
West Frisian: -skip

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