Word: patroonships
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: pa
troon
ships
Definition: Plural of patroonship. The position or office of a patroon; landownership (originally of a Dutch colony).
Morphemes:
Affix: patroon
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: One of the landowning Dutch grandees of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, especially after it became a British possession renamed as New York.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: patrōnus
Language: la
Decoded: patronus
Meaning: protector; patron
Affix: -ship
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Appended to a noun to form a new noun denoting a property or state of being, time spent in a role, or a specialised union.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the plural of nouns that correctly take just an "s" in the plural. See greengrocer’s apostrophe.