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ad⋅join

  [uh-join]
Use adjoin in a Sentence
–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)
3. to be in connection or contact: the point where the estates adjoin.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME a(d)joinen < MF ajoindre. See ad-, join
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ad·join   (ə-join')   
v.   ad·joined, ad·join·ing, ad·joins

v.   tr.
  1. To be next to; be contiguous to: property that adjoins ours.
  2. To attach: "I do adjoin a copy of the letter that I have received" (John Fowles).
v.   intr.
To be contiguous.

[Middle English ajoinen, from Old French ajoindre, ajoin-, from Latin adiungere, to join to : ad-, ad- + iungere, to join; see yeug- in Indo-European roots.]
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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.

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

Adjoin

Ad*join"\ ([a^]d*join"), v. i. 1. To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin.

When one man's land adjoins to another's. --Blackstone.

Note: The construction with to, on, or with is obsolete or obsolescent.

2. To join one's self. [Obs.]

She lightly unto him adjoined side to side. --Spenser.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : adjoin
Spanish: lindar con,
German: angrenzen,
Japanese: 隣り合う
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adjoin 
c.1325, from O.Fr. ajoin- stem of ajoindre, from L. adjungere "join to," from ad- "to" + jungere "to bind together" (see jugular).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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