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Adjoin \Ad*join"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adjoined; p. pr. & vb. n. Adjoining.]

[OE. ajoinen, OF. ajoindre, F. adjoindre, fr. L. adjungere; ad + jungere to join. See Join, and cf. Adjunct.]

To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append. [1913 Webster]

Corrections . . . should be, as remarks, adjoined by way of note. --Watts. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

 

Adjoining \Ad*join"ing\, a. Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room. "The adjoining fane." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

Upon the hills adjoining to the city. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Syn: Adjacent; contiguous; near; neighboring; abutting; bordering. See Adjacent. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

 

21 Moby Thesaurus words for "adjoining": abutting, adjacent, bordering, connecting, conterminous, contiguous, coterminous, end to end, endways, endwise, face to face, immediate, joined, juxtaposed, juxtapositional, juxtapositive, neighbor, neighboring, next, next to, touching

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

 

adjoining adj : having a common boundary or edge; touching; "abutting lots"; "adjoining rooms"; "Rhode Island has two bordering states; Massachusetts and Conncecticut"; "the side of Germany conterminous with France"; "Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho"; "neighboring cities" [syn: abutting, adjacent, conterminous, contiguous, neighboring(a)]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

 

Adjoin \Ad*join"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adjoined; p. pr. & vb. n. Adjoining.]

[OE. ajoinen, OF. ajoindre, F. adjoindre, fr. L. adjungere; ad + jungere to join. See Join, and cf. Adjunct.]

To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.

Corrections . . . should be, as remarks, adjoined by way of note. --Watts.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Adjoining \Ad*join"ing\, a. Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room. ``The adjoining fane.'' --Dryden.

Upon the hills adjoining to the city. --Shak.

Syn: Adjacent; contiguous; near; neighboring; abutting; bordering. See Adjacent.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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