Synonyms for neighboring
ˈneɪ bər ɪŋneigh·bor·ing

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1. neighboring

   Adjacent farms may not be connected; if adjoining, they meet at the boundary-line. Conterminous would imply that their dimensions were exactly equal on the side where they adjoin. Contiguous may be used for either adjacent or adjoining. Abutting refers rather to the end of one building or estate than to the neighborhood of another. Buildings may be adjacent or adjoining that are not attached. Near is a relative word, places being called near upon the railroad which would elsewhere be deemed remote. Neighboring always implies such proximity that the inhabitants may be neighbors. Next views some object as the nearest of several or many; next neighbor implies a neighborhood.

   Synonyms:
   abutting, adjacent, adjoining, attached, beside, bordering, close, conterminous, contiguous, coterminous, near, next, nigh

   Antonyms:
   detached, disconnected, disjoined, distant, remote, separate

   Preposition:
   The farm was adjacent to the village.

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1. adjacent, conterminous, contiguous, neighboring(a)adjective

   having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching

   "Rhode Island has two bordering states; Massachusetts and Conncecticut"; "the side of Germany conterminous with France"; "Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho"; "neighboring cities"

   Antonyms:
   unconnected

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1. neighboringadjective

   Synonyms:
   adjacent, contiguous, neighbor, near

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1. List of paraphrases for "neighboring":

   neighbouring, nearby, adjacent, neighbours, bordering, surrounding, near, good-neighbourliness, neighbors, neighbour, adjoining, neighborhood, neighbor, neighborly, peripheral

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1. Yiannis Katsikoyiannis:

   The villagers themselves, with the firefighters, are doing what they can to save their own and neighboring villages, if they had evacuated their villages, as the civil protection told them to, everything would have been burnt down – perhaps even two days sooner.

2. Boonyatilert Sara:

   I want to protect the religion and to do that we need legislative power, in neighboring Myanmar, the Buddhists there know truly what their religion is and they can defend it.  Not here.

3. Shelley Moore:

   Right now gas from the Marcellus and Utica shale is being blocked by some of our neighboring states, which cuts off our markets in New England.

4. Saddam Hussein:

   This can cause a great harm, the state has to find a solution through water-sharing agreements with neighboring countries to ... prevent excessive use of the Euphrates water.

5. Jeremy Farrar:

   This epidemic is in a truly frightening phase and shows no sign of stopping anytime soon, we can expect and should plan for more cases in DRC and neighboring countries.