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[ US /əˈdʒɔɪn/ ]
[ UK /ɐd‍ʒˈɔ‍ɪn/ ]
VERB
  1. lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
    England marches with Scotland
    Canada adjoins the U.S.
  2. attach or add
    I adjoin a copy of your my lawyer's letter
  3. be in direct physical contact with; make contact
    The wire must not contact the metal cover
    The two buildings touch
    The surfaces contact at this point
    Their hands touched

How To Use adjoin In A Sentence

  • The teacher in this school gradually separated himself from the grammatist, and often the two were found in adjoining rooms in the same school. The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization
  • An adjoining room is littered with mementos of more recent island history: a rack of antlers, a rusty plow, and an old dentist's chair.
  • Adjoining the visitors shop is Hartlepool Museum, which is stuffed full of artefacts telling the story of the town, particularly its maritime heritage.
  • A much larger, nonradioactive deposit of bastnaesite was found on adjoining land.
  • After several negroes, both male and female, had been disposed of here, the party again adjourned to another sale-room adjoining. Slave Auctions in Richmond, Virginia
  • We drove over and found a somewhat dinky little dirt park adjoining a railroad track.
  • Mrs. Babbit would bring a pot of the "Soup of the Day" from the adjoining diner for the maids to enjoy with whatever oddment they had brought from home to eat. Everyday Things Made Beautiful
  • To screen reception from the adjoining conference room, a cabinetmaker clad rigid-foam bifold doors with randomly flitched oak-veneered MDF panels. Interior Design Industry News
  • Pauli pointed out that a (self-adjoint) time operator is incompatible with a Hamiltonian spectrum bounded below. String Theory is Losing the Public Debate
  • There was a large interior patio, with fountain, trees and flowers; a large garden adjoined this filled with orange trees, banana plants and palms, with great masses of bougainvillea growing everywhere. Did you know? Cuautla, Mexico, has the world's oldest railway station building.
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