Power Suffixes for Tenth Grade Students: -ship

Learn these words formed with the suffix -ship, meaning "state or condition of, skill of."
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  1. companionship
    the state of being with someone
  2. scholarship
    profound learned knowledge
  3. citizenship
    membership in a state with rights and duties
  4. workmanship
    skill in an occupation or trade
  5. entrepreneurship
    the act of organizing a business venture in order to profit
  6. censorship
    deleting parts of publications or theatrical performances
  7. authorship
    the act of creating written works
  8. dictatorship
    a form of government in which the ruler is unconstrained
  9. apprenticeship
    the position of one working for an expert to learn a trade
  10. kinship
    relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
Created on Fri Jun 06 12:53:23 EDT 2025 (updated Fri Jun 06 18:26:46 EDT 2025)

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