adjoin
to be close to or in contact with; abut on: His property adjoins the lake.
to attach or append; affix.
to be in connection or contact: the point where the estates adjoin.
Origin of adjoin
1Other words from adjoin
- un·ad·joined, adjective
Words that may be confused with adjoin
- adjoin , adjourn
Words Nearby adjoin
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How to use adjoin in a sentence
The brothers, who had not seen each other for six days, spoke briefly together in the Oval Office before joining others in the adjoining meeting room.
How Robert F. Kennedy Shaped His Brother's Response to Civil Rights | Patricia Sullivan | August 11, 2021 | TimeIt could eventually tell Ward which planes have passengers transferring from one flight to another, so he can put them at adjoining gates.
Travel Is Coming Back, and Artificial Intelligence May Be Planning Your Next Flight | Alana Semuels/Seattle | May 25, 2021 | TimeIndia also adjoins Bangladesh, where there has also been an alarming rise in cases, and Myanmar, which in turn borders Laos and Thailand.
Southeast Asia Kept COVID-19 Under Control For Most of the Pandemic. Now It's Battling Worrying New Surges | Amy Gunia / Hong Kong | May 14, 2021 | TimePets are welcome along all 18 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail in the park and are allowed in the adjoining Ross Lake and Lake Chelan National Recreation Areas, giving you plenty of room to adventure.
The EPA found the adjoining neighborhoods — where nearly 27 percent of residents live below the poverty line and 75 percent are people of color — had “high risk vulnerability” to pollution.
The island where it rained oil | Juliet Eilperin, Darryl Fears, Salwan Georges | March 25, 2021 | Washington Post
Companies tend to create oil palm plantations in large tracts, many of which adjoin neighboring plantations.
Our Taste for Cheap Palm Oil Is Killing Chimpanzees | Carrie Arnold | July 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSome 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.
Making a Poultry House | Mary Roberts ConoverThe soul and mind adjoin themselves closely to the flesh of the body, to operate and produce their effects, 178.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love | Emanuel SwedenborgIn the still posterior sections the segmental duct would be quite without a lumen, and would closely adjoin the epiblast.
The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 | Francis Maitland BalfourThe battlefields of the Argonne adjoin on the West those of Verdun.
Verdun Argonne-Metz 1914-1918 | Anonymous
British Dictionary definitions for adjoin
/ (əˈdʒɔɪn) /
to be next to (an area of land, etc)
(tr foll by to) to join; affix or attach
Origin of adjoin
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