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adjacent

/əˈdʒeɪ.sənt/

An illustration for adjacent

adjective1 of 3

being close or near to a border, wall, or point

  • “Check this room while I check the adjacent one.”Tatoeba
  • “My home town is adjacent to the ocean.”Tatoeba

Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.

noun2 of 3

Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.

preposition3 of 3

Next to; beside.

Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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