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. Aecio Neves:

   A nation like Brazil that has a president who was once a political prisoner cannot keep silent when it sees a neighboring country keep almost 90 political prisoners, it is time the Brazilian government acted in defense of democracy in Venezuela.

2. Hanna Basel:

   When we leave the confines of our homes, we are able to see our partners in different lights, when my husband and I went on our first date night months after Covid began, I was reminded of how charismatic he is as he interacted with our servers and chatted with people at a neighboring table. It was a part of him I hadn't gotten to see in months, and I was reminded of who he is other than a husband and a father.

3. Kahlil Gibran:

   Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills

4. White House:

   The Hammonds are multi-generation cattle ranchers in Oregon imprisoned in connection with a fire that leaked onto a small portion of neighboring public grazing land, the evidence at trial regarding the Hammonds ’ responsibility for the fire was conflicting, and the jury acquitted them on most of the charges.

5. Julia Kaye:

   Eliminating restrictions would increase the number of medication abortion providers and the options for care in states like New Mexico and Colorado, which could enable patients from those states, as well as from neighboring states, to get care earlier in pregnancy.