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Adjoining   /ədʒˈɔɪnɪŋ/   Listen
adjective
Adjoining  adj.  Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room. "The adjoining fane." "Upon the hills adjoining to the city."
Synonyms: Adjacent; contiguous; near; neighboring; abutting; bordering. See Adjacent.






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"Adjoining" Quotes from Famous Books



... want to live," replied Nora. Her glances stole somewhat fearfully toward the door of the adjoining room—the bedroom where the ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips

... fire, and running from the tower over a space of some twenty feet to the garrets of the nearest building. At the end of this beam there was a large gap in the wall of the tower caused by the falling-in of the adjoining parts. In his explorations, indeed, Marcasse had fancied that he could see the steps of a narrow staircase through this gap. The wall, moreover, was quite thick enough to contain one. The mole-catcher ...
— Mauprat • George Sand

... baggage to the small bedroom adjoining Miss Shirley's. She is going to stop with ...
— The Lion and The Mouse - A Story Of American Life • Charles Klein

... marriage. On his way home he turned into the Rectory and asked for Mr. Cadwallader. Happily, the Rector was at home, and his visitor was shown into the study, where all the fishing tackle hung. But he himself was in a little room adjoining, at work with his turning apparatus, and he called to the baronet to join him there. The two were better friends than any other landholder and clergyman in the county—a significant fact which was in agreement with the amiable expression of ...
— Middlemarch • George Eliot

... of the nobility were seen hurrying to the palace, where the archduchess in state, surrounded by the other members of the imperial family, received the congratulations of the court. In an adjoining room, on a table of white marble, were exhibited the rich gifts by which her new relatives had testified their affection; for Isabella was adored ...
— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach


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