adjoining

English

Etymology

From Middle English ajoinen, from Old French ajoindre, (compare French adjoindre), from Latin adiungō (“join to”), formed from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + iungō (“join”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /əˈd͡ʒɔɪ.nɪŋ/

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• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /əˈd͡ʒoɪ.nɪŋ/

Adjective

adjoining (comparative more adjoining, superlative most adjoining)

1. Being in contact at some point or line; joining to.

   Synonyms: contiguous, bordering

   an adjoining room

   • 1902, Robert B. Ross, editor, History of the Knaggs family of Ohio and Michigan‎^[1], retrieved 22 July 2013, page 46:

     The location was described to be "on the lower side of the river, adjoining land owned by Whitmore Knaggs and on the upper side by lands not yet granted."

   • 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:

     He had contemplated Pym in all the stages he had grown up with him, drunk with him and worked with him, including a night in Berlin he had totally forgotten until now when they had ended up screwing a couple of army nurses in adjoining rooms.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:adjoining.

Synonyms

• adjacent
• bordering

Antonyms

• separated

Translations

being in contact at some point

• Danish: tilgrænsende, tilstødende
• Dutch: naburig (nl)
• German: benachbart (de), angrenzend (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: πρόσχορος (próskhoros)

• Italian: adiacente (it), attiguo (it)
• Latin: confīnis
• Māori: tūtata, piritaha
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tilgrensende, tilstøtende

  Nynorsk: tilgrensande

• Polish: sąsiedni (pl), przyległy (pl)
• Portuguese: adjacente (pt) m or f
• Russian: прилега́ющий (ru) (prilegájuščij), примыка́ющий (ru) (primykájuščij)
• Slovene: sosednji
• Spanish: contiguo (es), colindante (es)
• Swedish: angränsande (sv)
• Venetan: adiaxente m or f

Verb

adjoining

1. present participle and gerund of adjoin