mateship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anthropology
biology
human-sciences
natural-sciences
nautical
psychology
sciences
transport
zoology
Etymology: From mate + -ship. Cognate with Dutch maatschap (“partnership”).
Base: mate
Affixes: -ship
Inflected forms:
form: mateships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The post of mate on a ship; a posting as mate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
examples: Paul Jones profited by his brother′s position and counsel to improve himself in navigation and other professional studies, and was so successful in the endeavour, that he was deemed worthy of being appointed, on his return to Whitehaven, to a third mateship in a vessel in the slave-trade.
gloss: A type of contract between ships to cooperate and share the proceeds of an expedition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
usually
examples: […]as, for instance, the contract termed mateship, by which one whaling-ship meeting another forms a partnership in the proceeds of the expedition.
gloss: Fellowship; companionship.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: “Don′t mind if I do,” I answered, and thus begun a mateship that in the course of the next few months was to yield to each of us a fairly big experience of adventure, and, what was more acceptable to me, a good round sum in cash.
gloss: Friendship, particularly between men, such as develops in shared adversity; solidarity.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
uncountable
usually
examples: In traditional Australian culture, “mateship” was expected to bind people not only with their “best mates” or their “great mates” but also with their fellow-miners, fellow-shearers, fellow-“diggers”, fellow-soldiers, or fellow-footballers, and this expectation is one of this culture′s most enduring and characteristic features.¹⁹
While the camaraderie of war is usually an unspoken assumption, it seems peculiar that mateship, usually considered to be the core of the digger ethos and the ‘spirit of the Anzac’, barely appears in the diggers′ own expressions at this time.
A significant element of masculinity in Australian cultural history, and therefore Australian film, is mateship.[…]In times of war, mateship was a measure of the quality of relationship, as a mate was one whom a soldier would happily accompany into the jungle; that is, one who would be dependable and able to offer support.
The bush is the crucible of Australian national identity because it is here that mateship, that linchpin of Australian national identity, was forged.
gloss: A relationship based on mating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: The mateships of the three last-named animals are solitary, though in the case of wolves, the separated members of various mateships gather in packs during the winter months.
Further, in most cultures without systems of codified laws, long-term mateships are ritually sanctioned by the community. If we are not to have too provincial a conception of marriage, these mateships should also count as marriages.
In Homo sapiens we find two types of polygamous mateships, polygyny and polyandry, and social structures based on these are ordinarily called “families.” Relatively rare in man in an institutionalized form, polyandrous mateships appear to be absent in infrahuman primates.
The most frequent conflict within human mateships is the conflict between male sexual persistence and female sexual resistance.
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