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conjoin

/kənˈd͡ʒɔɪn/

conjoin verb: to join together; to unite; to combine.

Verb

conjoin (third-person singular simple present conjoins, present participle conjoining, simple past and past participle conjoined)

  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.2022 January 25, Eric Reinhardt, “How Joe Biden Launched a New Prison Boom”, in Slate
  2. (transitive) To marry.
    • I will conjoin you in holy matrimony.
    Synonyms:
    bewed
  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.
    Synonyms:
    affix
  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.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
    • 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!1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. XVI, St. Edmund”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk)

Noun

conjoin (plural conjoins)

  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.2021, Harm Pinkster, The Oxford Latin Syntax, volumes 2, The Complex Sentence and Discourse, →ISBN, page 621
    Synonyms:
    conjunct
  2. A reassembled bone, stone or ceramic artifact.
    • Attention must also be given to understanding why certain sites yield a low number of conjoins.1984, Ellen M. Kroll, Glynn Ll. Isaac, “Configurations of artifacts and bones at early Pleistocene sites in East Africa”, in Harold Hietala, editor, Intrasite Spatial Analysis in Archaeology, →ISBN...

conjoin meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Kannada

conjoin in Tamil

ஒன்றுசேர், சந்தி, ஒன்றாக இணை, ஒன்றிணை, ஒருங்கிணை

conjoin in Bengali

একত্রিত করা

conjoin in Kannada

ಕೂಡಿಸು, ಒಂದುಮಾಡು, ಜೋಡಿಸು, ಕಿಕ್ಕಿರಿಸು

Synonyms of conjoin

All synonyms of conjoin

Forms of conjoin

Verb
third-person singular presentconjoins
present participleconjoining
past participleconjoined
pastconjoined
Noun
pluralconjoins

Origin of conjoin

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

Words formed from conjoin

Words that rhyme with conjoin

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Questions about conjoin

What does conjoin mean?
Conjoin means to join together; to unite; to combine.
What is conjoin in Tamil?
Conjoin in Tamil is ஒன்றுசேர், சந்தி, ஒன்றாக இணை. See Conjoin meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is conjoin?
Conjoin can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce conjoin?
Conjoin is pronounced /kənˈd͡ʒɔɪn/.
What is the past tense of conjoin?
The past tense of conjoin is conjoined.

Words near conjoin in the dictionary

  1. Conjeevaram
  2. Conjeeveram
  3. Conjevaram
  4. conjevoi
  5. conjey
  6. conjoin
  7. conjoin'd
  8. conjoinable
  9. conjoined
  10. conjoined twin
  11. conjoined twins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: conjoin (page history and authors); conjoin (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); conjoin (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); conjoin (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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