adjoin

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: ad=join

CIDE DICTIONARY

adjoin, v. t. [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.  [1913 Webster]
"Corrections . . . should be, as remarks, adjoined by way of note."  [1913 Webster]

adjoin, v. i. 

•  To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin.  [1913 Webster]

  " The construction with to, on, or with is obsolete or obsolescent."  [1913 Webster]

  "When one man's land adjoins to another's."  [1913 Webster]
•  To join one's self.  [1913 Webster]

  "She lightly unto him adjoined side to side."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

adjoin, v.tr.
1 be next to and joined with.
2 archaic = ADD 1.

Etymology

ME f. OF ajoindre, ajoign- f. L adjungere adjunct- (as AD-, jungere join)

THESAURUS

adjoin

abut, abut on, add, affix, agglutinate, annex, append, appose, attach, be contiguous, be in contact, befringe, bind, border, border on, bound, bring near, burden, butt, communicate, complicate, conjoin, connect, decorate, edge, encumber, end, enframe, frame, fringe, glue on, hem, hitch on, infix, join, join with, juxtapose, juxtaposit, lap, lie by, line, list, march, marge, margin, marginate, meet, neighbor, ornament, paste on, plus, postfix, prefix, purfle, purl, put with, rim, run into, saddle with, set off, side, skirt, slap on, stand by, subjoin, suffix, superadd, superpose, tack on, tag, tag on, touch, trim, unite with, verge, verge upon

ROGET THESAURUS

adjoin

Nearness

VB be near, adjoin, hang about, trench on, border upon, verge upon, stand by, approximate, tread on the heels of, cling to, clasp, hug, huddle, hang upon the skirts of, hover over, burn, touch, bring near, draw near, converge, crowd, place side by side.

Contiguity

VB be contiguous, join, adjoin, abut on, march with, graze, touch, meet, osculate, come in contact, coincide, coexist, adhere, juxtapose, contact, join (unite), link (vinculum).