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)

1. (transitive) To join together; to unite; to combine.

   They are representatives that will loosely conjoin a nation.

   • 2022 January 25, Eric Reinhardt, “How Joe Biden Launched a New Prison Boom”, in Slate‎^[1]:

     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.

2. (transitive) To marry.

   I will conjoin you in holy matrimony.

3. (transitive, grammar) To join as coordinate elements, often with a coordinating conjunction, such as coordinate clauses.
4. (transitive, mathematics) To combine two sets, conditions, or expressions by a logical AND; to intersect.
5. (intransitive) To unite, to join, to league.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; 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, 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

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)

1. (grammar) One of the words or phrases that are coordinated by a conjunction.

   Synonym: conjunct

   • 2021, Harm Pinkster, The Oxford Latin Syntax, volumes 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.

2. (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.

Further reading

• Conjoin @ The Internet Grammar of English