conjoin

English

Etymology

From Old French conjoindre, from Latin coniungo, from com- together + iungo join, equivalent to con- +‎ join.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kənˈd͡ʒɔɪn/
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Rhymes: -ɔɪn

Verb

conjoin (third-person singular simple present conjoins, present participle conjoining, simple past and past participle conjoined)

(transitive) To join together; to unite; to combine.
- 2022 January 25, Eric Reinhardt, “How Joe Biden Launched a New Prison Boom”, in Slate‎:
  During an ongoing pandemic conjoined with an intensifying operational crisis inside U.S. prisons, mass clemency should be the first step of many toward a decarceral agenda that could still––if he’s bold enough to seize the opportunity––define Biden’s presidency.
They are representatives that will loosely conjoin a nation.
(transitive) To marry.
I will conjoin you in holy matrimony.
(transitive, grammar) To join as coordinate elements, often with a coordinating conjunction, such as coordinate clauses.
(transitive, mathematics) To combine two sets, conditions, or expressions by a logical AND; to intersect.
(intransitive) To unite, to join, to league.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene i:
  Our armie will be forty thouſand ſtrong,
  When Tamburlain and braue Theridamas
  Haue met vs by the riuer Araris:
  And all conioin’d to meete the witleſſe King,
  That now is marching neere to Parthia.
- 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. XVI, St. Edmund”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, OCLC 191225086, book II (The Ancient Monk):
  And the Body of one Dead; — a temple where the Hero-soul once was and now is not: Oh, all mystery, all pity, all mute awe and wonder; Supernaturalism brought home to the very dullest; Eternity laid open, and the nether Darkness and the upper Light-Kingdoms; — do conjoin there, or exist nowhere!

Synonyms

(to come together): affix, attach, join, put together; see also Thesaurus:join
(to marry): bewed, wed; see also Thesaurus:marry

Derived terms

conjoined twin
conjoiner
conjoint
conjointly

Related terms

conjunction
conjunctiva
conjunctive

Translations

to join together

Bulgarian: съчета́вам (bg) (sǎčetávam), свързвам (bg) (svǎrzvam), съединя́вам (bg) (sǎedinjávam)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 聯合／联合 (zh) (liánhé), 結合／结合 (zh) (jiéhé)
French: conjoindre (fr)
Norwegian: forene
Bokmål: forene
Portuguese: juntar (pt)
Swedish: förena (sv), förbinda (sv)

to join in marriage

Bulgarian: съчета́вам (bg) (sǎčetávam)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 結合／结合 (zh) (jiéhé)
Norwegian: forene
Bokmål: forene

Noun

conjoin (plural conjoins)

(grammar) One of the words or phrases that are coordinated by a conjunction.
Synonym: conjunct
- 2021, Harm Pinkster, The Oxford Latin Syntax, volume 2, The Complex Sentence and Discourse, →ISBN, page 621:
  Et is the general coordinator that can be used for all types of coordination, both clauses and constituents, regardless of the semantic relation between the conjoins.
(archaeology) A reassembled bone, stone or ceramic artifact.
- 1984, Ellen M. Kroll; Glynn Ll. Isaac, “Configurations of artifacts and bones at early Pleistocene sites in East Africa”, in Harold Hietala, editor, Intrasite Spatial Analysis in Archaeology, →ISBN, page 23:
  Attention must also be given to understanding why certain sites yield a low number of conjoins.