conjoin
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
- 21
- Letters
- 7
Definition of conjoin
7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To join together; to unite; to combine.
“They are representatives that will loosely conjoin a nation.”
“During an ongoing pandemic conjoined with an intensifying operational crisis inside U.S. prisons, mass clemency should be the first step of many toward a decarceral agenda that could still––if he’s bold enough to seize the opportunity––define Biden’s presidency.”
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verb
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(transitive)To join together; to unite; to combine.
“They are representatives that will loosely conjoin a nation.”
“During an ongoing pandemic conjoined with an intensifying operational crisis inside U.S. prisons, mass clemency should be the first step of many toward a decarceral agenda that could still––if he’s bold enough to seize the opportunity––define Biden’s presidency.”
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(transitive)To marry.
“I will conjoin you in holy matrimony.”
- (transitive)To join as coordinate elements, often with a coordinating conjunction, such as coordinate clauses.
- (transitive)To combine two sets, conditions, or expressions by a logical AND; to intersect.
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(intransitive)To unite, to join, to league.
“Our armie will be forty thouſand ſtrong, When Tamburlain and braue Theridamas Haue met vs by the riuer Araris: And all conioin’d to meete the witleſſe King, That now is marching neere to Parthia.”
“And the Body of one Dead; — a temple where the Hero-soul once was and now is not: Oh, all mystery, all pity, all mute awe and wonder; Supernaturalism brought home to the very dullest; Eternity laid open, and the nether Darkness and the upper Light-Kingdoms; — do conjoin there, or exist nowhere!”
noun
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One of the words or phrases that are coordinated by a conjunction.
“Et is the general coordinator that can be used for all types of coordination, both clauses and constituents, regardless of the semantic relation between the conjoins.”
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A reassembled bone, stone or ceramic artifact.
“Attention must also be given to understanding why certain sites yield a low number of conjoins.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Old French conjoindre, from Latin coniungo, from con- (“together”) + iungo (“join”). Equivalent to con- + join.
Words you can make from conjoin
25 playable · top: COJOIN (15 pts)
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