adjoining

[uh-joi-ning]

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adjective

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

First recorded in 1485–95; adjoin + -ing²

ANTONYMS FOR adjoining

separated.

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Related formsnon·ad·join·ing, adjectiveun·ad·join·ing, adjective

Can be confusedadjacent adjoining (see synonym study at the current entry)

Synonym study

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.

adjoin

[uh-join]

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.

Origin of adjoin

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

Related formsun·ad·joined, adjective

Can be confusedadjoin adjourn

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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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Which is why in 1961, the distillery finally decided to purchase the estate and its adjoining home.
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Four people in adjoining houses had died, the only fatalities.
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La Teresita also has an adjoining cafeteria where you can head for an informal buffet and heaping piles of Cuban delicacies.
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Orange robe-clad monks from the adjoining Buddhist temple oversee the morbid sculpture park.
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He led her into an adjoining room, leaving Mrs. Yeobright by the fire.
Return of the Native|Thomas Hardy
The buildings were immediately destroyed, together with a magazine, which was unexpectedly found in the adjoining village.
Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis from 1840 to 1843|William Hutcheon Hall
The adjoining house (No. 22) is 14th century, and probably dates back to about the end of the reign of Philippe-le-Bel.
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The animal headed through a gap in an old fence and started across an adjoining pasture which contained a shallow muddy pond.
Ticktock and Jim|Keith Robertson
The interchange of adjoining metrically and grammatically equivalent substantives is very common.
The Last Poems of Ovid|Ovid

British Dictionary definitions for adjoining

adjoining

adjective

being in contact; connected or neighbouring

adjoin

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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Word Origin and History for adjoining

adjoin

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.

adjoining

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adjoin

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verb (used without object)

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