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Surrounding vs Nearby - What's the difference?

surrounding | nearby |

As adjectives the difference between surrounding and nearby

is that surrounding is which surrounds something while nearby is adjacent, near, very close.

As a verb surrounding

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun surrounding

is outlaying area; area in proximity to something.

As an adverb nearby is

next to, close to.

surrounding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • outlaying area; area in proximity to something
  • environment

    • Synonyms

    * periphery

    Adjective

    (-)
  • which surrounds something

    • nearby

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • adjacent, near, very close
    • He stopped at a nearby store for some groceries.

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • next to, close to
    • I'm glad my friends live nearby where I can visit them.

    Usage notes

    Some British writers make the distinction between the adverbial near by'', which is written as two words; and the adjectival ''nearby , which is written as one. In American English, the one-word spelling is standard for both forms.

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