Adjoin
[ə'dʒɒɪn] or [ə'dʒɔɪn]
Definition
(verb.) attach or add; 'I adjoin a copy of your my lawyer's letter'.
Edited by Hamilton--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.
(v. i.) To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin.
(v. i.) To join one's self.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Be contiguous to, lie near to, lie close to, border upon, be adjacent to.
v. n. [Rare.] Border, lie near, lie close, be contiguous, be adjacent.
Checked by Jennie
Definition
v.i. to lie next to.—adj. Adjoin′ing joining to: near: adjacent.—n. Ad′joint a civil officer who assists a French maire: an assistant professor in a French college.
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Examples
- A private sitting-room having been engaged, bedrooms inspected, and dinner ordered, the party walked out to view the city and adjoining neighbourhood. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- But he himself was in a little room adjoining, at work with his turning apparatus, and he called to the baronet to join him there. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They slept in adjoining rooms, and Mrs. King had rushed in to Saunders. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- What has become of Mr. Brownlow, who used to live in the adjoining house, do you know? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Somerset, Lord Berwick and Lord Worcester, with your humble servant, in two private boxes adjoining each other. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- When I first went on deck I entered the captain's room adjoining the pilot-house, and threw myself on a sofa. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He led her into an adjoining room, leaving Mrs. Yeobright by the fire. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A breakfast-room adjoined the drawing-room, I slipped in there. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I had unquestionably observed the man leaving a house which closely adjoined Mrs. Catherick's residence. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Joe's forge adjoined our house, which was a wooden house, as many of the dwellings in our country were,--most of them, at that time. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- One day, Thérèse, whose bed-chamber adjoined that of William Lamb, overheard the following conversation between them. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- She always sat upstairs: her drawing-room adjoined her bed-room. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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