Meaning of ADJOINING
| Pronunciation: | | u'joyning
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| | Definition: | | [adj] having a common boundary or edge; touching; "abutting lots"; "adjoining rooms"; "Rhode Island has two bordering states; Massachusetts and Conncecticut"; "the side of Germany conterminous with France"; "Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho"; "neighboring cities" |
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| | Synonyms: | | abutting, adjacent, bordering(a), connected, conterminous, contiguous, neighboring(a) |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ad*join"ing\, a.
Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room.
``The adjoining fane.'' --Dryden.
Upon the hills adjoining to the city. --Shak.
Syn: Adjacent; contiguous; near; neighboring; abutting;
bordering. See {Adjacent}.
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| | Related Terms: | | abutting, adjacent, bordering, connecting, conterminous, contiguous, coterminous, end to end, endways, endwise, face to face, immediate, joined, juxtaposed, juxtapositional, juxtapositive, neighbor, neighboring, next, next to, touching |
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