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adjacent

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Adjective, Noun
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ad=ja=cent
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18 in 14 verses (in OT : 18 in 14 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

adjacenta. [L. adjacens, -centis, p. pr. of adjacere to lie near; ad + jac to lie: cf. F. adjacent.].
     Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway.  B. Jonson.  [1913 Webster]
    "I find that all Europe with her adjacent isles is peopled with Christians."  [1913 Webster]
Adjacent or contiguous angle. (Geom.) See Angle.
Syn. -- Adjoining; contiguous; near.
adjacentn. 
     That which is adjacent.  Locke.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

adjacent, adj. (often foll. by to) lying near or adjoining.

Derivative
adjacency n.
Etymology
ME f. L adjacere (as AD-, jacere lie)

THESAURUS

adjacent

abutting, adjoining, attached, bordering, close-by, closest, connected, connecting, consecutive, conterminous, contiguous, coterminous, end to end, endways, endwise, face to face, handy, immediate, joined, juxtaposed, juxtapositional, juxtapositive, linked, nearby, nearest, neighbor, neighboring, next, successive, touching

ROGET THESAURUS

adjacent

Nearness

N nearness, proximity, propinquity, vicinity, vicinage, neighborhood, adjacency, contiguity, short distance, short step, short cut, earshot, close quarters, stone's throw, bow shot, gun shot, pistol shot, hair's breadth, span, purlieus, neighborhood, vicinage, environs, alentours, suburbs, confines, banlieue, borderland, whereabouts, bystander, neighbor, borderer, approach, convergence, perihelion, near, nigh, close at hand, near at hand, close, neighboring, bordering upon, contiguous, adjacent, adjoining, proximate, proximal, at hand, handy, near the mark, near run, home, intimate, near, nigh, hard by, fast by, close to, close upon, hard upon, at the point of, next door to, within reach, within call, within hearing, within earshot, within an ace of, but a step, not far from, at no great distance, on the verge of, on the brink of, on the skirts of, in the environs, at one's door, at one's feet, at one's elbow, at one's finger's end, at one's side, on the tip of one's tongue, under one's nose, within a stone's throw, in sight of, in presence of, at close quarters, cheek by jole, cheek by jowl, beside, alongside, side by side, tete-a-tete, in juxtaposition, yardarm to yardarm, at the heels of, on the confines of, at the threshold, bordering upon, verging to, in the way, about, hereabouts, thereabouts, roughly, in round numbers, approximately, approximatively, as good as, well-nigh.


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