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View synonyms for adjoining

adjoining

[ uh-joi-ning ]

adjective

  1. being in contact at some point or line; located next to another; bordering; contiguous:

    the adjoining room; a row of adjoining town houses.



adjoining

/ əˈdʒɔɪnɪŋ /

adjective

  1. being in contact; connected or neighbouring
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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  • nonad·joining adjective
  • unad·joining adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of adjoining1

First recorded in 1485–95; adjoin + -ing 2
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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.
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Example Sentences

Robinson and Emeigh said that in 1989, Carroll and Jensen converted a room in the sprawling Ziegfeld’s building that had once been used as a restaurant into a separate adjoining bar called Secrets, which featured nude male dancers.

Both separations occurred at the trains’ couplers — the large latches at the end of each rail car that connect to adjoining cars.

Exploitation of trafficking victims may be most acute in conflict and adjoining regions, but it is not confined to these areas.

Which is why in 1961, the distillery finally decided to purchase the estate and its adjoining home.

Four people in adjoining houses had died, the only fatalities.

La Teresita also has an adjoining cafeteria where you can head for an informal buffet and heaping piles of Cuban delicacies.

Surreally, a choir of high school students at the gate adjoining ours begins singing a hymnal.

The countries about the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea and its adjoining waters.

Before Louis could answer in the negative, he heard voices in the adjoining garden.

Adjoining the engine-house on the other side, is the stable, where five splendid horses are kept.

The announcements of the meets in this and adjoining counties appear regularly in the Midland Counties' Herald.

In a hotel in the city of Antwerp, where we stayed for several days, we occupied adjoining bedrooms having a communicating door.

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