- next to something
- The planes landed on adjacent runways.
- numbers that are adjacent in the sequence
- adjacent to something Our farm land was adjacent to the river.
- The vineyards of Verzy lie adjacent to those of Verzenay.
- There is a row of houses immediately adjacent to the factory.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- be situated
- lie
- …
- directly
- immediately
- to
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin adjacent- ‘lying near to’, from adjacere, from ad- ‘to’ + jacere ‘lie down’.Definitions on the go
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