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join

/ˈd͡ʒɔɪn/

join verb: to connect or combine into one; to put together.

Verb

join (third-person singular simple present joins, present participle joining, simple past joined, past participle joined or (archaic) joint)

  1. (transitive) To connect or combine into one; to put together.
    • The plumber joined the two ends of the broken pipe.
    • We joined our efforts to get an even better result.
    Synonyms:
    bewed
  2. (intransitive) To come together; to meet.
    • Parallel lines never join.
    • These two rivers join in about 80 miles.
  3. (intransitive) To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose.
    • Forſake thy king and do but ioyne with me
      And we will triumph ouer al the world.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...
    • […]Nature and Fortune ioyn’d to make thee great.c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  4. (transitive) To start working on or participating in a project.
    • He joined season 2 of the television show.
  5. (transitive) To come into the company of.
    • I will join you in watching the football game as soon as I have finished my work.
    • No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46
  6. (transitive) To become a member of.
    • Many children join a sports club.
    • Most politicians have joined a party.
  7. (transitive) To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
    • By joining the Customer table on the Product table, we can show each customer's name alongside the products they have ordered.
  8. To unite in marriage.
    • Into the whiche holy eſtate theſe two perſones pꝛeſent: come nowe to be ioyned.1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “Of Matrimony”, in The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: […] Edowardi Whitchurche […], →OCLC, folio...
    • […]this fellow wil but ioyne you together, as they ioyne
      Wainscot, then one of you wil proue a ſhrunke pannell[…]c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  9. (obsolete, rare) To enjoin upon; to command.
    • And they ioyne them penaunce / as they call it / to faſt / to goo pylgremages ⁊ geve ſo moch to make ſatiſfaccion with all.1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “Anoylynge”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio Cxj, recto
  10. To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
    • to join encounter, battle, or issue
    • Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’d
      And cloſde in compaſſe of the killing bullet, […]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...

Noun

join (plural joins)

  1. An act of joining or the state of being joined; a junction or joining.
    • We found 217 putative interchromosomal joins. Only one of these joins (in the paternal assembly of HG02080) was located in a euchromatic, non-acrocentric region and was manually confirmed to be a misassembly.2023 May 11, Wen-Wei Liao, Mobin Asri, Jana Ebler, et al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI, page 313
  2. An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
  3. An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
  4. The act of joining something, such as a network.
    • The offline domain join is a three-step process described subsequently: […]2010, Dustin Hannifin, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Administrator's Reference
  5. The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨.
    Antonyms:
    meet
  6. The smallest linear space containing both of two given linear spaces.

join meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

join in Hindi

to combine more than one item into one; to put together
जोड़ना joḍnā
to come together; to meet
जुड़ना juṛnā

join in Tamil

இணை, சேர்ந்து கொள், இணைப்பு

join in Marathi

to combine more than one item into one; to put together
जोडणे joḍṇe

join in Urdu

to join, connect, link, unite, attach
جوڑنا joṛnā
to join
ملانا milānā
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join in Bengali
যোগদান, সংযুক্ত হওয়া, যোগ দেওয়া
join in Telugu
అతుకు atuku, అతికించు atikiñcu, కూర్చు kūrcu, చేర్చు cērcu
join in Malayalam
ചേരുക cēruka, കൂപ്പുക kūppuka, യോജിക്കുക yōjikkuka, ഏശുക ēśuka
join in Kannada
ಸೇರು sēru, ಸೇರಿಸು sērisu, ಬೀಳು bīḷu
join in Punjabi
ਮਿਲਣਾ milṇā, ਜੋੜਨਾ joṛnā, ਗੰਢਣਾ gaṇḍhṇā, گنڈھنا gaṉḍhṇā
join in Gujarati
જોડવું joḍvũ
join in Odia
ଭରିବା bharibā
join in Sanskrit
युनक्ति yunakti
join in Sinhala
ගළපනවා gaḷapanawā
join in Nepali
मिल्नु milnu
join in Arabic
وَصَلَ waṣala, اِتَّصَلَ ittaṣala, اِلْتَحَقَ بِـ iltaḥaqa bi-, اِنْضَمَّ إِلَى inḍamma ʔilā
join in Indonesian
sambung
join in Persian
پیوستن peyvastan

Examples of join in a sentence

  • A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
  • Before joining battle, the officers and warriors gathered to make divinations "before the spirits of the former rulers," as at the battle of Yen-ling between Chin and Ch'u in 575 b.c.1965, Cho-yun Hsu, Ancient China in Transition: An Analysis of Social Mobility, 722–222 b.c., Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page...

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Synonyms of join

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Antonyms

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Forms of join

Verb
third-person singular presentjoins
present participlejoining
pastjoined
past participlejoined
past participle (archaic)joint
second-person singular present (archaic)joinest
second-person singular past (archaic)joinedst
third-person singular present (archaic)joineth
alternative form (obsolete)joyn
alternative form (obsolete)joyne
alternative form (obsolete)joyen
Noun
pluraljoins

Past tense of join: joined

Plural of join: joins

Origin of join

From Middle English joinen, joynen, joignen, from Old French joindre, juindre, jungre, from Latin iungō (“join, yoke”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *yewg- (“to join, unite”). Cognate with Old English iucian, iugian, ġeocian, ġyċċan (“to join; yoke”). More at yoke.

Words formed from join

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Words that rhyme with join

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Questions about join

What does join mean?
Join means to connect or combine into one; to put together.
What is join in Hindi?
Join in Hindi is जोड़ना (joḍnā), जुड़ना (juṛnā). See Join meaning in Hindi.
How do you use join in a sentence?
A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined.
What part of speech is join?
Join can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce join?
Join is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɔɪn/.
What is the past tense of join?
The past tense of join is joined.

Words near join in the dictionary

  1. joiked
  2. joiker
  3. joikers
  4. joiking
  5. joiks
  6. join
  7. join forces
  8. join hands
  9. join in
  10. join issue
  11. join out

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: join (page history and authors); join (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); جوڑنا (Urdu) (page history and authors); join (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); అతికించు (Telugu) (page history and authors); അട്ടുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಬೀಳು (Kannada) (page history and authors); گنڈھنا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); જોડવું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଭରିବା (Odia) (page history and authors); ගළපනවා (Sinhala) (page history and authors); मिल्नु (Nepali) (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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