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# adjoin

«adjoin» in Mova's school dictionary: **To be next to and joined to something: the kitchen…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (adjoin, adjoins, adjoined, adjoining)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To be next to and joined to something: the kitchen adjoins the dining room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adjoin/#m1)

2) (adjoining, as an adjective) Next door and connected: adjoining rooms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adjoin/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used about rooms, buildings, fields and countries that share a wall or border; in geography maps show which countries adjoin. In maths, shapes that adjoin share a side. Phrases: adjoining rooms, adjoining land, the adjoining field.

### examples

- The gym adjoins the school hall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adjoin/#x1)
- Our hotel had two adjoining rooms with a door between them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adjoin/#x2)
- The farmer bought the adjoining field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adjoin/#x3)
- France adjoins Spain along the mountains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adjoin/#x4)
- The two squares adjoin along one side. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adjoin/#x5)
- The shed adjoins the garage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adjoin/#x6)
- Then the marriage was celebrated in the church adjoining the palace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adjoin/#x7)

### note

Regular verb, a bit formal. Usually used without "to": "the room adjoins the hall", not "adjoins to". Do not confuse with "adjourn" (stop a meeting for a while).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «adjoin» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adjoin/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.