adjoining

adjective

ad·​join·​ing ə-ˈjȯi-niŋ How to pronounce adjoining (audio)
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: touching or bounding at a point or line
Choose the Right Synonym for adjoining

adjacent, adjoining, contiguous, juxtaposed mean being in close proximity.

adjacent may or may not imply contact but always implies absence of anything of the same kind in between.

a house with an adjacent garage

adjoining definitely implies meeting and touching at some point or line.

had adjoining rooms at the hotel

contiguous implies having contact on all or most of one side.

offices in all 48 contiguous states

juxtaposed means placed side by side especially so as to permit comparison and contrast.

a skyscraper juxtaposed to a church

Examples of adjoining in a Sentence

the cows had broken through the fence and were grazing in the adjoining field
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Moments later, Padilla was shoved to the floor face-down in a hallway outside the briefing room, handcuffed, and temporarily detained in an adjoining room. Nik Popli, Time, 13 June 2025 Photo : Vitruvius Yacht Design The dining room opens to an adjoining terrace with the push of a button. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 11 June 2025 Intel’s solution, introduced more than five years ago, is to embed a small sliver of silicon in the organic package beneath the adjoining edges of the silicon dies. IEEE Spectrum, 8 June 2025 Though not a traditional kids’ movie by any stretch, there’s still a lot of wonderful Dignan-esque scheming involved in Mr. Fox (George Clooney) stealing from the adjoining farms of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean, and the film has the warmth of an old Rankin-Bass production. Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for adjoining

Word History

Etymology

Middle English adjoynyng, from present participle of adjoynen "to adjoin"

First Known Use

1577, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of adjoining was in 1577

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“Adjoining.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adjoining. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.

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