adjoining
[uh-joi-ning]
- being in contact at some point or line; located next to another; bordering; contiguous: the adjoining room; a row of adjoining town houses.
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Origin of adjoining
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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.
Antonyms
separated.
adjoin
[uh-join]
- to be close to or in contact with; abut on: His property adjoins the lake.
- to attach or append; affix.
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- to be in connection or contact: the point where the estates adjoin.
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Origin of adjoin
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neighboringcontiguousadjacentjoinedneartouchingabuttingjuxtaposedconterminousapproximalcoterminousExamples from the Web for adjoining
Contemporary Examples
Exploitation of trafficking victims may be most acute in conflict and adjoining regions, but it is not confined to these areas.
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December 26, 2014
Which is why in 1961, the distillery finally decided to purchase the estate and its adjoining home.
Ester Elchies, The Estate Built By WhiskeyDecember 10, 2014
Four people in adjoining houses had died, the only fatalities.
Life Under Air Strikes: Children Under Fire Will Never Forget — or ForgiveClive Irving
August 3, 2014
La Teresita also has an adjoining cafeteria where you can head for an informal buffet and heaping piles of Cuban delicacies.
Orange robe-clad monks from the adjoining Buddhist temple oversee the morbid sculpture park.
Historical Examples
Every one else seemed to have drifted into an adjoining room.
Quaint CourtshipsVarious
As she spoke, she took Marriott into the adjoining dressing-room.
Tales And Novels, Volume 3 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth
Adjoining the latter was a colony of quiet and inoffensive Beavers.
Biddy darted off to an adjoining room, leaving me alone with my employer.
It Happened in EgyptC. N. Williamson
Mr Pancks glanced at the wall of the adjoining room, and stooped forward.
Little DorritCharles Dickens
adjoining
- being in contact; connected or neighbouring
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adjoin
- to be next to (an area of land, etc)
- (tr foll by to) to join; affix or attach
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Word Origin
C14: via Old French from Latin adjungere, from ad- to + jungere to join
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Word Origin and History for adjoining
adjoin
v.
c.1300, "unite, ally" from Old French ajoin- stem of ajoindre "join together, unite," from Latin adjungere "fasten on, harness, join to," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + jungere "to bind together" (see jugular). Meaning "be contiguous with, be adjacent to" is from late 14c. Related: Adjoined; adjoining.
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