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. Pavlo Kyrylenko:

   It is impossible to get out of the hospital. They shoot hard, we sit in the basement. Cars have not been able to drive to the hospital for two days. High-rise buildings around us are burning. ... The Russians have rushed 400 people from neighboring buildings to our hospital. We can't leave.

2. Ali Zarmdini:

   There are still some blind spots in intelligence, but they are advancing with the cooperation of neighboring countries and with the West.

3. Phil Murphy:

   If this lunatic in Pennsylvania were to be elected governor in my neighboring state, what are the consequences ?

4. John McCain:

   Listen, Bernie Sanders came to Tucson, Arizona, a couple months ago and 13,000 people showed up, OK? and look at how he's doing in the polls in New Hampshire -- and it isn't just because he's from a neighboring state.

5. Joseph Fallon:

   Here, it can jeopardize western interests through guerrilla warfare sabotaging Libya’s oil facilities and ports and through calculated use of terror to unleash a mass migration of people to destabilize neighboring countries and Europe.