Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive & intransitive verb To join or become joined together; unite.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Conjoined.
  • To join together; bring into relation or contact; unite, as one thing to another.
  • To associate or connect.
  • Specifically To join in marriage.
  • To form a union or league; come or act together; unite.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To join together; to unite.
  • intransitive verb To unite; to join; to league.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To join together; to unite; to combine.
  • verb transitive To marry.
  • verb transitive, grammar To join as coordinate elements, often with a coordinating conjunction, such as coordinate clauses.
  • verb transitive, mathematics To combine two sets, conditions, or expressions by a logical AND; to intersect.
  • verb intransitive To unite, to join, to league.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb take in marriage
  • verb make contact or come together

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English conjoinen, from Old French conjoindre, conjoign-, from Latin coniungere : con-, com- + iungere, to join; see yeug- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Old French conjoindre, from Latin coniungo, from com- together + iungo join

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Examples

  • In a kind of literary sleuthing, Ms. Zanganeh haunts many of the places where Nabokov lived, visits his grave in Clarens, Switzerland, detects portents that link her with him, celebrating fluky coincidences between Nabokov and herself and correlations that conjoin them in some sort of "relationship," although she does point out that she was only 10 months old when he died on July 2, 1977.

    The Trouble With Ardor Alexander Theroux 2011

  • Yet, over a century ago, carpetbagging Arizona politicians bucked a US House Committee's recommendation to conjoin Arizona and New Mexico as a single state.

    Jeff Biggers: Dear Gov. Jan Brewer: Wax On, Wax Off, Or, Welcome to Arizona, Now Go Home 2010

  • The best twinsets are versatile enough to allow the wearer to separate them in an instant or conjoin them as designed without hesitation.

    The Style Checklist Lloyd Boston 2010

  • The best twinsets are versatile enough to allow the wearer to separate them in an instant or conjoin them as designed without hesitation.

    The Style Checklist Lloyd Boston 2010

  • Only dogmatic Darwin worshipers could be dumb enough to believe that these stalactites and stalagmites would know where to start growing so that eventually meet at a point, conjoin, become a pillar and hold the roof of the cave up.

    Rimstone Formation - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • The best twinsets are versatile enough to allow the wearer to separate them in an instant or conjoin them as designed without hesitation.

    The Style Checklist Lloyd Boston 2010

  • What happens when entire continents are firestormed as urban fire fronts spread and conjoin, reaching into natural forests and farm land across the nation?

    Comic-Con 08: Awesome Terminator Salvation Updates - Rated R?! « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • Only dogmatic Darwin worshipers could be dumb enough to believe that these stalactites and stalagmites would know where to start growing so that eventually meet at a point, conjoin, become a pillar and hold the roof of the cave up.

    Rimstone Formation - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • In accordance with the growing numbers of Americans on the autism spectrum (1.5 million and counting) there lies before us an opportunity for unlimited possibilities if we conjoin in a partnership that decrees "we are all more alike than different."

    William Stillman: Autism: The Last Human Rights Movement 2009

  • Mr. HUNT: Yes, and this piece is particularly fun to sing because it's written in a polychoral style whereby one choir sings to the other, the other answers it, and then you have this wonderful coming together of the two choirs as the lovers conjoin.

    Stile Antico: Young Voices Revive Old Music 2009

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