How to Spell adjacent
adjacent
adjacent - adjective
- Not distant : nearby
- Having a common endpoint or border
- Immediately preceding or following
- Having the vertex and one side in common
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary API
"the city and adjacent suburbs"
Etymology
Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French agisaunt, adjesant, borrowed from Latin adjacent-, adjacens, present participle of adjacēre "to lie near, border on," from ad- ad- + jacēre "to lie," stative derivative from the base of jacere "to throw"
Word family
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