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Webster 1913 Edition
Contiguous
Con-tig′u-ous
,Adj.
In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining.
The two halves of the paper did not appear fully divided . . . but seemed
contiguous
at one of their angles. Sir I. Newton.
Sees no
– contiguous
palace rear its head. Goldsmith.
Con-tig′u-ous-ly
, adv.
Con-tig′u-ous-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Contiguous
CONTIGUOUS
,Adj.
The houses in ancient Rome were not contiguous.
Usually followed by to. Bacon uses with, but he has not been followed.
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contiguous
contiguous
English
Adjective
contiguous (not comparable)
- Connected; touching; abutting.
- Adjacent; neighbouring/neighboring.
- 1730–1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland
- Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,
- He sees his little lot the lot of all;
- Sees no contiguous palace rear its head
- To shame the meanness of his humble shed;
- 1835, William Scoresby, Memorials of the Sea (page 59)
- […] the usual quietness of the day, with us, was broken in upon by the shout of success from the pursuing boats, followed by vehement respondings from the contiguous ship.
- 1730–1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland
- Connecting without a break.
- The forty-eight contiguous states.
- 1886, Frank Hamilton Cushing, A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth:
- Supposing three such houses to be contiguous to a central one, each separated from the latter by a straight wall.
Related terms
Derived terms
Translations
connected, touching, abutting
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adjacent, neighboring
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connecting without a break
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See also
References
- contiguous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- contiguous in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911