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View synonyms for adjoin

adjoin

[ uh-join ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to be close to or in contact with; abut on:

    His property adjoins the lake.

  2. to attach or append; affix.


verb (used without object)

  1. to be in connection or contact:

    the point where the estates adjoin.

adjoin

/ əˈdʒɔɪn /

verb

  1. to be next to (an area of land, etc)
  2. trfoll byto to join; affix or attach


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Other Words From

  • unad·joined adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of adjoin1

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

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Word History and Origins

Origin of adjoin1

C14: via Old French from Latin adjungere, from ad- to + jungere to join

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Example Sentences

Companies tend to create oil palm plantations in large tracts, many of which adjoin neighboring plantations.

Some of the chiefs attach themselves in preference to the Parthians, others to the Romans, to whom they adjoin.

It should adjoin the hennery, and a section of its roof should be movable to allow a change of litter.

The soul and mind adjoin themselves closely to the flesh of the body, to operate and produce their effects, 178.

In the still posterior sections the segmental duct would be quite without a lumen, and would closely adjoin the epiblast.

The battlefields of the Argonne adjoin on the West those of Verdun.

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