adjective
definition
Situated or living nearby or adjacent to.
verb
definition
To be adjacent to
example
Though France neighbours Germany, its culture is significantly different.
definition
(followed by "on"; figurative) To be similar to, to be almost the same as.
example
That sort of talk is neighbouring on treason.
definition
To associate intimately with; to be close to.
Examples of neighboring in a Sentence
Japan has four insular chains which link her to the neighboring continent.
The occupant of the neighboring apartment was Mrs. Watson, a retired fed.
Thus the fame of Germany in the neighboring countries, which had been nearly destroyed during the confusion of Henry IV.s reign, was to a large extent restored.
A large bay window which overlooks our large garden and neighboring farmland.
Iwleanwhile an inquirer is confronted by the strange fact that of three neighboring countries between which frequent communication existed, one (China) never deviated from an ideographic script; another (Korea) invented an alphabet, and the third (Japan) devised a syllabary.
The best explanation suggested for bess is that, during certain phases of the glacial period, it was carried as dust by the winds from the flood plains of aggrading rivers, and slowly deposited on the neighboring grass-covered plains.
The principal remaining buildings are part of a court at Memphis, the second temple at Abydos, and the six Nubian temples of Bet el-Wgli, Jerf Husein, Wadi es-Sebtia, Derr, and the grandest of allthe rock-cut temple of Abu Simbel, with its neighboring temple of Hathor.
On the following day Tokar was reached, and on the 2nd of March the force began its return to Suakin, bringing away about 700 people belonging to the late garrison and the civil population, and destroying 1250 rifles and a quantity of ammunition found in a neighboring village.
The latter may be brought from any one of its positions to a neighboring one by a rotation about the proper centre.
The heat produced by friction, when moderate in amount, is useful in softening and liquefying thick unguents; but when excessive it is prejudicial, by decomposing the unguents, and sometimes even by softening the metal of the bearings, and raising their temperature so high as to set fire to neighboring combustible matters.
And here wi may take it as certain that the scene of his activity was laid ir the east of Iran, in Bactria and its neighboring regions.
After a short but extremely bumpy drive to a neighboring compound, I find myself in a tiny, dark room in a hut.
The tenth region included Venetia from the Padus and Adriatic to the Alps, to which was annexed the neighboring peninsula of Istria, and to the west the territory of the Cenomani, a Gaulish tribe, extending from the Athesis to the Addua, which had previously been regarded as a part of Gallia Cisalpina.
Lilerature.From the neighboring continent the Japanese derived the art of transmitting ideas to paper.
The porcelains of Arita were carried to the neighboring town of Imari for sale and shipment.
The Arctic or ArcticAlpine zone covers in the United States only the tops of a few mountains which extend above the limit of trees, such as Mt Katahdin in Maine, Mt Washington and neighboring peaks in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and the loftier peaks of the Rocky, Cascade and Sierra Nevada Mountains.
The want of a central government opelated injuriously, for it often happened that intricate negotiations and solemn treaties between several sovereign states were required before a line could be constructed; and, moreover, the course it was to take was often determined less by the general exigencies of commerce than by many trifling interests or desires of neighboring states.
Campaigns against the Slavonic tribes,if sometimes failing in their immediate object, taught those peoples to respect the power of the Frankish monarch; and the establishment of a series of marches along the eastern frontier gave a sense of safety to the neighboring districts.
Although these preparations were carried on directly under Henrys supervision, only in Saxony and Thuringia the neighboring dukes were stimulated to follow his example.
There was, moreover, a struggle between Valdemar of Denmark and some neighboring German nobles.
They were disturbed by democratic movements in many of the cities and they were threatened by the changing politics of the three northern kingdoms, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, and by their union in 1397; their trading successes had raised up powerful enemies and had embroiled them with England and with Flanders, and the Teutonic Order and neighboring princes were not slow to take advantage of their other difficulties.
It was soon realized, however, that to make this system complete the neighboring states must be drawn into it; and a beginning was made with those which were enclaves in Prussian territory, of which there were no less than thirteen.
More than a hundred years ago Katzellenbogen was divided between the neighboring states.
More than this, Bismarck was able to obtain Prussian control of the neighboring states; in 1886 the Brunswick railways were acquired by the Prussian government, and in 1895 the private lines in Thuringia.
Egypt normally included the whole of the Nile valley from the First Cataract to the sea; pure Egyptians, however, formed the population of Lower Nubia above the Cataract in prehistori.c times; at some periods also the land was divided into separate kingdoms, while at others Egypt stretched southward into Nubia, and it generally claimed the neighboring Libyan deserts and oases on the west and the Arabian deserts on the east to the shore of the Red Sea, with Sinai and the Mediterranean coast as far as Rhinocorura (El Arish).
Naturally, however, the wild tribes of the mountains and deserts, who could be curbed only by strict imperial control, asserted their independence and harassed the neighboring provinces.
Babarnot the illustrious founder of the Mughal dynasty in India, but an elder member of the same housenext obtained possession of the sovereign power, and established himself in the government of Khorasan and the neighboring countries.
After Russia, the neighboring state next in importance to the well-being of Persia was Turkey, with whom she was united on the west by a common line of frontier.
His success did almost as much harm as good to his cause, for the deliberate sack of the city was carried out with such ruthless severity that it roused wild wrath rather than terror in the neighboring regions.
The county voters were the freeholders; but in the towns, with some important exceptions, the electors were the richer inhabitants who formed the corporations of the boroughs, or a body of select householders more or less under the control of some neighboring landowner.
The Frankish armies then overflowed into the neighboring countries and began to pillage them.
The Directory finally conceived the gigantic project of bolstering up the French Republicthe triumph of which was celebrated by the peace of Campo-Formio by forming the neighboring weak states into tributary vassal republics.
The Immortal sat at the nearest end of the neighboring couch while Gabriel remained standing opposite her on the other side of the ottoman.
The village on the border of Tiyan and the neighboring kingdom was marked by a small black circle on the rough parchment map.
The dissociated molecules can undergo thermal reactions with neighboring surface atoms or with other adsorbates.
Traditionally Rumney has been considered more affluent than neighboring Llanrumney.
Ideal for cycling, walking, bird-watching, etc. and exploring the neighboring islands.
Such an arrangement had already been made for the neighboring burgh of Newport on Tay.
But the terminator technology could also spread to neighboring food crops, with potentially calamitous effects on food production.
It is situated in an attractive campus, neighboring open countryside, yet is only one mile from Bath city center.
Whilst flows in neighboring impermeable catchments responded rapidly to the lack of rainfall, and were notable depressed by month end.
James Stewart of Ardvorlich had been at odds with some several of the neighboring clans but had always managed to avoid them.
Together with the neighboring settlements of Redruth and Pool it forms the largest urban conurbation in Cornwall.
Seed surface patches are formed by grouping neighboring pixels whose mean and Gaussian curvature have the same sign.
Rural or urban areas nearest you may be in a neighboring deanery.
Pairs of neighboring atoms on the surface bind to each other to make silicon dimers.
This guidance takes account of your responses as well as the views of our colleagues in the Diocesan Board of Finance and neighboring dioceses.
The wood adjoins the old tree-lined driveway to Oaklands House, most of which can be seen on neighboring land.
It would also enrage neighboring Turkey, which controls crucial trade routes for the landlocked Iraqi Kurds.
Dandelion plants release ethylene which can affect the growth of neighboring plants.