adjoin

  • 11adjoin — verb Adjoin is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑land, ↑room …

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  • 12adjoin — /əˈdʒɔɪn / (say uh joyn) verb (t) 1. to be in connection or contact with; abut on: her house adjoins the lake. –verb (i) 2. to lie or be next, or in contact: the two houses adjoin. {Middle English ajoine(n), from Old French adjoindre, from Latin… …

  • 13adjoin — verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French ajoindre, from Latin adjungere, from ad + jungere to join more at yoke Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to add or attach by joining 2. to lie next to or in contact with …

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  • 14adjoin — Synonyms and related words: abut, abut on, add, affix, agglutinate, annex, append, appose, attach, be contiguous, be in contact, befringe, bind, border, border on, bound, bring near, burden, butt, communicate, complicate, conjoin, connect,… …

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  • 15adjoin — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. touch, abut, border, meet, neighbor. See contact. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To be close to] Syn. abut, lie beside, be adjacent to; see join 3 . 2. [To join] Syn. unite, append, annex; see join 1 . III… …

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  • 16adjoin — ad|join [əˈdʒɔın] v [T] [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: adjoindre, from Latin adjungere, from ad to + jungere to join ] a room, building, or piece of land that adjoins something is next to it and connected to it ▪ A vacant plot of land… …

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  • 17adjoin — ad|join [ ə dʒɔın ] verb intransitive or transitive FORMAL to be right next to and connected to another building, room, area, etc.: the land that adjoins the park …

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  • 18adjoin — [[t]əʤɔ͟ɪn[/t]] adjoins, adjoining, adjoined VERB If one room, place, or object adjoins another, they are next to each other. [FORMAL] [V n] Fields adjoined the garden and there were no neighbours... [V ing] We waited in an adjoining office …

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  • 19adjoin — ad·join || É™ dʒɔɪn v. touch; be next to, border on; attach, join …

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  • 20adjoin — verb [often as adjective adjoining] be next to and joined with. Origin ME: from OFr. ajoindre, from L. adjungere, from ad to + jungere to join …

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