- present participle of adjoin.
adjoining
Americanadjective
adjective
Synonym Usage
Adjoining, adjacent, bordering all mean near or close to something. Adjoining implies touching, having a common point or line: an adjoining yard. Adjacent implies being nearby or next to something else: all the adjacent houses; adjacent angles. Bordering means having a common boundary with something: the farm bordering on the river.
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In an adjoining room, Mr. Blair was honing his scheduled remarks when he heard of the second crash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The adjoining barn on the property was transformed into a guesthouse, and Seyfried has focused on passing on her love for animals to her two children: Nina, 8, and Thomas, 5.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
"The troops engaged the terrorists with effective fire, forcing them to abandon the victims and flee into adjoining bushes," he said, noting that all the hostages had been recovered without any casualties.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
In the adjoining Avila region a little further west, another inferno raging since last week has become the biggest since Spain's records began in 1961, burning 50,000 hectares.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
One shared the queen’s bed every night, to ascertain she had no other company; the other two slept in an adjoining chamber with the septa who looked over them.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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