neighbouring

UK/ˈneɪbəɹɪŋ/US/ˈneɪbəɹɪŋ/

adjectiveC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,212 of 15,258mostly written

Neighbouring means lying right next to something else. A neighbouring village.

It is used of places rather than people, which is what separates it from neighbourly. A neighbouring country shares a border and usually a long history of arguing about it.

Definitions of neighbouring

1adjectiveneighbouringLying right next to something else.C1
“The neighbouring farm had been in the same family for four hundred years.”

neighbouring is a quality.

Also accepted in games: neighboring

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neighbouring in the wild

Framton is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, just south of the CBD and neighbouring the suburb of Booysens.
Framton
In copyright law, related rights (or neighbouring rights) are the rights of a creative work not connected with the work's actual author.
Related rights
Dawn Park is a suburb in Boksburg neighbouring Vosloorus.
Dawn Park
The keen worldly wisdom of the Cardinal confirmed the old Bishop's more spiritual insight, and Godeau was named Bishop of the neighbouring Grasse.
Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1· Elise Whitlock Rose

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