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verb

Join v. t. (past & past part. joined; pres. part. joining)

1.

To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append. "Woe unto them that join house to house." "Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn Like twenty torches joined." "Thy tuneful voice with numbers join."

2.

To associate one's self to; to be or become connected with; to league one's self with; to unite with; as, to join a party; to join the church. "We jointly now to join no other head."

3.

To unite in marriage. "He that joineth his virgin in matrimony." "What, therefore, God hath joined together, let not man put asunder."

4.

To enjoin upon; to command. (Obs. & R.) "They join them penance, as they call it."

5.

To accept, or engage in, as a contest; as, to join encounter, battle, issue.

6.

To meet with and accompany; as, we joined them at the restaurant.

7.

To combine with (another person) in performing some activity; as, join me in welcoming our new president.

To join battle, To join issue. See under Battle, Issue.

Synonyms: To add; annex; unite; connect; combine; consociate; couple; link; append. See Add.

Join v. i. To be contiguous, close, or in contact; to come together; to unite; to mingle; to form a union; as, the bones of the skull join; two rivers join. "Whose house joined hard to the synagogue." "Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations?" "Nature and fortune joined to make thee great."

adjective

joined adj.

1.

Married. Antonym: unmarried.

Synonyms: united.

2.

Connected by a link, as railway cars or trailer trucks.

Synonyms: coupled, linked.

3.

Connected by or sharing a wall with another building.

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Etymology of 'Joined'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— The Lion of the North • G.A. Henty

... spasmodic to make a stronger or a healthier man of me. My business visits to London were sometimes made to embrace friendly visits to Sidney Heron's lodgings. Two or three times I dined with Arncliffe, and very occasionally I was visited at Dorking by two of the literary journalists who had joined Arncliffe's staff at ...

— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

... the loss of his son, but still more the fact that he was cut off so suddenly in the full flush of careless and not altogether blameless youth. So poignant, indeed, were the old man's feelings that he cast off his knightly armour and joined one of the great monastic orders, vowing to devote all the remainder of his life to prayer, first for the soul of his son, and secondly that henceforward no descendant of his might ever again encounter what seemed ...

— The Astral Plane - Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena • C. W. Leadbeater

... Mr. Charles Montague, afterwards Earl of Hallifax, and Mr. Matthew Prior, who joined in writing the Hind and Panther, transversed to the Country Mouse, and City Mouse, Lond. 1678, 4to. In the preface to which, the author observes, 'that Mr. Dryden's poem naturally falls into ridicule, and that in this burlesque, ...

— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Vol. III • Theophilus Cibber

... that wicked car-driver, who had boycotted Mr. Jones in his great need. The reader will probably have forgotten that Mr. Jones had required to be driven home to Morony Castle from Ballyglunin station, and had been refused the accommodation by a wicked old Landleaguer, who had joined the conspiracy formed in the neighbourhood against Mr. Jones. He had done so, either in fear of his neighbours, or else in a true patriot spirit—because he had gone without any supper, as had also ...

— The Landleaguers • Anthony Trollope

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