Meaning

2 senses
  1. Next to; beside.

    The house adjacent to the school was demolished.

    A notice was sent to the house adjacent the school.

  2. (figuratively)Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.

Examples

30 sentences
  1. The stadium is adjacent to the school.

    ruСтадион прилегает к школе. — marafon

    deDas Stadion befindet sich neben der Schule. — al_ex_an_der

  2. The lake was adjacent to his house.

  3. I heard a thumping noise coming from the adjacent room.

  4. His house and mine are adjacent.

  5. Flavio came from an adjacent building.

Origin

Borrowed from Latin adiacēns, adiacentis, derivative of adiaceō (“to lie beside”); from ad

Borrowed from Latin adiacēns, adiacentis, derivative of adiaceō (“to lie beside”); from ad (“to”) + iaceō (“to lie down”).

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See also

neighbours in the dictionary
adjacent — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto