conjoin

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
21
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/kənˈd͡ʒɔɪn/

Definition of conjoin

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (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

  1. (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.”
  2. (transitive)To marry.
    “I will conjoin you in holy matrimony.”
  3. (transitive)To join as coordinate elements, often with a coordinating conjunction, such as coordinate clauses.
  4. (transitive)To combine two sets, conditions, or expressions by a logical AND; to intersect.
  5. (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

  1. 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.”
  2. A reassembled bone, stone or ceramic artifact.
    “Attention must also be given to understanding why certain sites yield a low number of conjoins.”

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Etymology

From Old French conjoindre, from Latin coniungo, from con- (“together”) + iungo (“join”). Equivalent to con- + join.

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