 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjoining
adjective: 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" [syn:
{abutting}, {adjacent}, {conterminous}, {contiguous}, {neighboring(a)}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adjoining \Ad*join"ing\, adjective
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}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adjoin \Ad*join"\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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