6 definitions found for Adjoining

Adjoining ADJOIN'ING, ppr. Joining to; adjacent; contiguous.

adjoining adjective Date: 15th century touching or bounding at a point or line Synonyms: see adjacent

Adjoin Ad*join", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adjoined; p. pr. & vb. n. Adjoining.] [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. Corrections . . . should be, as remarks, adjoined by way of note. --Watts.

Adjoining 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.

adjoining əˈdʒɔɪnɪŋ adj. neighbouring, contiguous (to), adjacent (to), abutting, bordering, next (to): We have bought the adjoining house. The land adjoining the supermarket is for sale.

21 Moby Thesaurus words for "adjoining": 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