contiguous
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Etymology[edit]
From Latin contiguus (“touching”), from contingere (“to touch”); see contingent, contact, contagion.
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Adjective[edit]
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;
- 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.
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Translations[edit]
connected, touching, abutting
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adjacent, neighboring
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connecting without a break
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References[edit]
- contiguous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- contiguous in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911