adjoin

[ uh-join ]

verb (used with object)

1. to be close to or in contact with; abut on:

   His property adjoins the lake.

2. to attach or append; affix.

verb (used without object)

1. to be in connection or contact:

   the point where the estates adjoin.

adjoin

/ əˈdʒɔɪn /

verb

1. to be next to (an area of land, etc)
2. trfoll byto to join; affix or attach

Other Words From

• unad·joined adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of adjoin¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of adjoin¹

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

Example Sentences

The brothers, who had not seen each other for six days, spoke briefly together in the Oval Office before joining others in the adjoining meeting room.

From Time

It could eventually tell Ward which planes have passengers transferring from one flight to another, so he can put them at adjoining gates.

From Time

India also adjoins Bangladesh, where there has also been an alarming rise in cases, and Myanmar, which in turn borders Laos and Thailand.

From 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.

From 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.

From Washington Post

Companies tend to create oil palm plantations in large tracts, many of which adjoin neighboring plantations.

From The Daily Beast

Some of the chiefs attach themselves in preference to the Parthians, others to the Romans, to whom they adjoin.

From Project Gutenberg

It should adjoin the hennery, and a section of its roof should be movable to allow a change of litter.

From Project Gutenberg

The soul and mind adjoin themselves closely to the flesh of the body, to operate and produce their effects, 178.

From Project Gutenberg

In the still posterior sections the segmental duct would be quite without a lumen, and would closely adjoin the epiblast.

From Project Gutenberg

The battlefields of the Argonne adjoin on the West those of Verdun.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• abut