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[ UK /ɐd‍ʒˈe‍ɪsənt/ ]
[ US /əˈdʒeɪsənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. near or close to but not necessarily touching
    lands adjacent to the mountains
    New York and adjacent cities
  2. nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space
    the person sitting next to me
    in the next room
    had adjacent rooms
    our rooms were side by side
  3. having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching
    Rhode Island has two bordering states; Massachusetts and Connecticut
    neighboring cities
    Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho
    the side of Germany conterminous with France

How To Use adjacent In A Sentence

  • Adjacent to the restaurant is a bar, which is well stocked with an assortment of alcoholic beverages and non-alcoholic drinks.
  • Investigations indicated the fire started from a temporary storehouse at the building's rear adjacent to a boiler room.
  • I swallowed my tears and washed my face in the small sink in the adjacent lavatory.
  • There is minimal hemorrhage, necrosis or invasion of adjacent renal parenchyma ( Urology 1997 ; 50:679 ).
  • Would it not be logical for him to enable these schools to share their facilities with pupils in adjacent areas? Times, Sunday Times
  • Acute cholecystitis may cause the gall bladder to adhere to the adjacent jejunum or duodenum.
  • I said to them that in their deliberations they should consider the ten pensioners' flats adjacent.
  • We had one last taste of bauera as we crossed a gully to the adjacent ridge which saw us safely down.
  • The fused parietals form the posterior two-thirds of the sagittal crest, expanding posteriorly to form a flattened, sculpted deck behind the supratemporal fenestrae adjacent to the squamosals.
  • Although Mitchell grasses (Astrebla spp.) may be common along drainage lines in adjacent lowland ecoregions (Gulf Plains and Channel Country), it is only in the downs that Mitchell grasses dominate regional vegetation. Mitchell grass downs
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