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.

Origin of adjoining

First recorded in 1485–95; adjoin + -ing²

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.

Antonyms for adjoining

separated.

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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Related Words for adjoining

neighboring, contiguous, adjacent, joined, near, touching, abutting, juxtaposed, conterminous, approximal, coterminous

Examples from the Web for adjoining

Contemporary Examples of adjoining

Exploitation of trafficking victims may be most acute in conflict and adjoining regions, but it is not confined to these areas.
ISIS, Boko Haram, and the Growing Role of Human Trafficking in 21st Century Terrorism
Louise I. Shelley
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 Whiskey
December 10, 2014
Four people in adjoining houses had died, the only fatalities.
Life Under Air Strikes: Children Under Fire Will Never Forget — or Forgive
Clive 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.
Eat Your Way Through Tampa’s Cuban Oasis
Starbucks
July 10, 2014
Orange robe-clad monks from the adjoining Buddhist temple oversee the morbid sculpture park.
Welcome to Buddhist Hell
Nina Strochlic
January 23, 2014

Historical Examples of adjoining

Every one else seemed to have drifted into an adjoining room.
Quaint Courtships
Various
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.
Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 15, July 9, 1870
Various
Biddy darted off to an adjoining room, leaving me alone with my employer.
It Happened in Egypt
C. N. Williamson
Mr Pancks glanced at the wall of the adjoining room, and stooped forward.
Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens

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.