neighboring

English

Alternative forms

• neighbouring (British spelling)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈneɪbəɹɪŋ/, /ˈneɪbɹɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: neigh‧bor‧ing, neighb‧oring

Adjective

neighboring (not comparable)

1. (American spelling) Situated or living nearby or adjacent to.
   • 1975, Wu-han (Briefs on Selected PRC Cities)‎^[1], Central Intelligence Agency, page 4:

     Han-yang is the smallest of the three cities. It was founded about A.D. 600 but, like neighboring Han-k'ou, remained relatively unimportant until the last half of the 19th century.

Translations

Situated or living nearby or adjacent to

• Arabic: مُجَاوِر (mujāwir)
• Bulgarian: съседен (bg) (sǎseden), близък (bg) (blizǎk)
• Catalan: veí (ca), limítrof (ca)
• Czech: sousední (cs)
• Dutch: naburig (nl), naburige (nl), aanpalend (nl), aanpalende (nl), buur-
• Esperanto: najbara
• Finnish: naapuri- (fi)
• French: adjacent (fr), voisin (fr), avoisinant (fr) m
• Galician: veciño (gl), limítrofe
• Georgian: მეზობელი (ka) (mezobeli), მეზობლური (mezobluri)
• German: benachbart (de)
• Greek: γειτονικός (el) (geitonikós)

  Ancient: πρόσχορος (próskhoros), ὅμορος (hómoros)

• Hungarian: szomszédos (hu)
• Icelandic: nágranna- (is), nærliggjandi
• Italian: confinante (it), contiguo (it), vicino (it), finitimo (it), limitrofo (it)
• Latin: vīcinālis
• Maori: pātata (mi), tūtata
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tilgrensende, tilstøtende

  Nynorsk: tilgrensande

• Portuguese: vizinho (pt), limítrofe (pt)
• Romansch: vischin
• Russian: сосе́дний (ru) (sosédnij), близлежа́щий (ru) (blizležáščij)
• Spanish: vecino (es), limítrofe (es), contiguo (es), convecino, comarcano (es), aledaño (es)
• Swedish: närliggande (sv), näraliggande (sv), kringliggande (sv), tillgränsande, angränsande (sv), grann-, grannande
• Ukrainian: сусі́дній (susídnij), приле́глий (pryléhlyj)
• Venetan: adiaxente m or f
• Volapük: nilädik (vo)

Verb

neighboring

1. (American spelling) present participle and gerund of neighbor