Entry Word: adjoin

Function: verb

Meaning: 1 to be adjacent to <Colleen, whose bedroom adjoins her little brotherʼs room, sometimes hears him talking in his sleep>

Synonyms abut, border (on), flank, fringe, join, skirt, touch, verge (on)

Related Words attach (to), communicate (with), connect (with), link (with); bound, embrace, encircle, enclose (also inclose), fence, line, rim, surround; contact, converge, meet, neighbor

2 to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase <after the dictionary writerʼs talk, the principal adjoined a few remarks about her own love of words> — see add 1