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. Wuer Kaixi:

   The reason people still remember (1989), other than the mere importance of it, is also because the Communist Party is still conducting all of these brutal acts and atrocities within China against Uighur people, against Tibetans, Hong Kong, Macau, and even conducting threats against neighboring countries like Taiwan, that will remind people that this regime, todays acts of this regime, is the same regime that massacred peaceful demonstrators 30 years ago.

2. Mateusz Morawiecki:

   I look at the latest developments, including Helsinki, where it might have been that one president of our neighboring country (Putin) was pressuring the U.S. president for concessions. But I have not seen any concessions, neither as regards the annexation of Crimea nor the war in Ukraine, none of the voices that were appearing beforehand as hypothetically possible - concessions by the United States - have materialized. So I don't see where he (Trump) has made any significant concessions.

3. Patrick Murray:

   We've become accustomed to Donald Trump leading in every poll, as the candidate himself likes to remind us, it's interesting that Ben Carson, whose parents come from neighboring Georgia, is out-polling the state's own senator as a second choice.

4. Mohamed Moazzab:

   We mainly aim with the lifting of fuel and food subsidies to stop the smuggling of goods and fuel to neighboring countries.

5. Penelope Boston:

   The fact that she pointed out these structures is a great contribution to the field, along with the recent reports of methane and organics on Mars, her findings add an intriguing piece to the puzzle of a possible history for life on our neighboring planet.