adjoining

EnglishEdit

From Middle English ajoinen, from Old French ajoindre, (compare French adjoindre), from Latin adiungō (“join to”), formed from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + iungō (“join”).

adjoining (comparative more adjoining, superlative most adjoining)

Being in contact at some point or line; joining to; contiguous; bordering: an adjoining room.
- 1902, Robert B. Ross (ed.), History of the Knaggs family of Ohio and Michigan^[1], retrieved 2013-07-22, page 46:
  The location was described to be "on the lower side of the river, adjoining land owned by Whitmore Knaggs and on the upper side by lands not yet granted."

being in contact at some point

adjoining