Etymology
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From Latin contiguus (“touching”), from contingere (“to touch”); see contingent, contact, contagion.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
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contiguous (not comparable)
- Connected; touching; abutting.
- Adjacent; neighboring.
- 1730–1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland
- Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,
- He sees his little lot the lot of all;
- Sees no contiguous palace rear its head
- To shame the meanness of his humble shed;
1835, William Scoresby, Memorials of the Sea, page 59:[…] the usual quietness of the day, with us, was broken in upon by the shout of success from the pursuing boats, followed by vehement respondings from the contiguous ship.
- Connecting without a break.
- the forty-eight contiguous states
1886, Frank Hamilton Cushing, A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth:Supposing three such houses to be contiguous to a central one, each separated from the latter by a straight wall.
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Translations
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connected, touching, abutting
- Bulgarian: допиращ се (dopirašt se), граничещ (bg) (graničešt)
- Catalan: contigu (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Danish: tilstødende, tilgrænsende
- Dutch: verbonden (nl)
- Finnish: liittyvä (fi), vierekkäinen, viereinen (fi)
- French: contigu (fr)
- Galician: contiguo (gl), estremeiro
- German: angrenzend (de); zusammen (de); verbunden (de), durchgehend (de)
- Greek: συνεχόμενος (el) (synechómenos)
- Hungarian: érintkező (hu), összeérő, összekapcsolt (hu), egybekapcsolt, hozzá kapcsolódó (hu)
- Icelandic: aðlægur, samlægur, samliggjandi
- Italian: contiguo (it)
- Maori: kāpīpiti
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tilstøtende
- Persian: نزدیک (fa) (nazdik), همسایه (fa) (hamsâye)
- Portuguese: contíguo (pt)
- Russian: сме́жный (ru) m (sméžnyj), соприкаса́ющийся (ru) m (soprikasájuščijsja), грани́чащий (ru) m (graníčaščij), прилега́ющий (ru) m (prilegájuščij)
- Spanish: contiguo (es)
- Turkish: bitişik (tr)
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adjacent, neighboring
- Bulgarian: съседен (bg) (sǎseden)
- Catalan: contigu (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Danish: nærliggende
- Dutch: aangrenzend (nl)
- Finnish: viereinen (fi); naapuri-
- French: contigu (fr), voisin (fr), adjacent (fr)
- Galician: contiguo (gl), estremeiro, veciño (gl)
- German: angrenzend (de); benachbart (de); nahe (de)
- Greek: συνεχόμενος (el) (synechómenos)
- Hungarian: szomszédos (hu), határos (hu), mellette fekvő/lévő, (egymás) melletti (hu), egymás mellett fekvő/lévő
- Icelandic: aðlægur, samlægur, samliggjandi
- Italian: contiguo (it)
- Latin: confīnis
- Maori: whātata
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: nærliggende
- Nynorsk: nærliggande, nærliggjande
- Persian: نزدیک (fa) (nazdik), همسایه (fa) (hamsâye)
- Portuguese: contíguo (pt)
- Russian: сосе́дний (ru) m (sosédnij), близлежа́щий (ru) m (blizležáščij), прилега́ющий (ru) m (prilegájuščij)
- Spanish: vecino (es), cercano (es), contiguo (es), adyacente (es)
- Swedish: närliggande (sv)
- Turkish: komşu (tr), sınırdaş (tr)
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connecting without a break
See also
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References
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- “contiguous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “contiguous”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.