adjoin

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/ əˈdʒɔɪn /

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verb (used with object)

to be close to or in contact with; abut on: His property adjoins the lake.

to attach or append; affix.

verb (used without object)

to be in connection or contact: the point where the estates adjoin.

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Origin of adjoin

1275–1325; Middle English a(d)joinen<Middle French ajoindre.See ad-, join

OTHER WORDS FROM adjoin

un·ad·joined, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH adjoin

adjoin , adjourn

Words nearby adjoin

adjective clause, adjective phrase, adjective pronoun, adjectivize, adjigo, adjoin, adjoining, adjoint, adjoint differential equation, adjourn, adjournment

How to use adjoin in a sentence

It could eventually tell Ward which planes have passengers transferring from one flight to another, so he can put them at adjoining gates.
Travel Is Coming Back, and Artificial Intelligence May Be Planning Your Next Flight|Alana Semuels/Seattle|May 25, 2021|Time
India also adjoins Bangladesh, where there has also been an alarming rise in cases, and Myanmar, which in turn borders Laos and Thailand.
Southeast Asia Kept COVID-19 Under Control For Most of the Pandemic. Now It's Battling Worrying New Surges|Amy Gunia / Hong Kong|May 14, 2021|Time
Pets are welcome along all 18 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail in the park and are allowed in the adjoining Ross Lake and Lake Chelan National Recreation Areas, giving you plenty of room to adventure.
The Most Dog-Friendly National Parks in the U.S.|Emily Pennington|May 7, 2021|Outside Online
The EPA found the adjoining neighborhoods — where nearly 27 percent of residents live below the poverty line and 75 percent are people of color — had “high risk vulnerability” to pollution.
The island where it rained oil|Juliet Eilperin, Darryl Fears, Salwan Georges|March 25, 2021|Washington Post

In addition to the main campus and adjoining streets, clinic officers also patrol other hospitals and properties it operates in northeast Ohio.
The Startling Reach and Disparate Impact of Cleveland Clinic’s Private Police Force|by David Armstrong|September 28, 2020|ProPublica
Companies tend to create oil palm plantations in large tracts, many of which adjoin neighboring plantations.
Our Taste for Cheap Palm Oil Is Killing Chimpanzees|Carrie Arnold|July 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Some of the chiefs attach themselves in preference to the Parthians, others to the Romans, to whom they adjoin.
The Geography of Strabo, Volume III (of 3)|Strabo
It should adjoin the hennery, and a section of its roof should be movable to allow a change of litter.
Making a Poultry House|Mary Roberts Conover
The soul and mind adjoin themselves closely to the flesh of the body, to operate and produce their effects, 178.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love|Emanuel Swedenborg
In the still posterior sections the segmental duct would be quite without a lumen, and would closely adjoin the epiblast.
The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1|Francis Maitland Balfour
The battlefields of the Argonne adjoin on the West those of Verdun.
Verdun Argonne-Metz 1914-1918|Anonymous

British Dictionary definitions for adjoin

adjoin

/ (əˈdʒɔɪn) /

verb

to be next to (an area of land, etc)

(tr foll by to) to join; affix or attach

Word Origin for adjoin

C14: via Old French from Latin adjungere, from ad- to + jungere to join

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adjoin

verb (used with object)

verb (used without object)

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British Dictionary definitions for adjoin

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