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Annex

//əˈnɛks// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A census-designated place in Malheur County, Oregon, United States.

Noun

1
An addition, an extension. US
"6.2.3.2.2. For aircraft having pressurized cabins, the disinsection of cabins and annexes, cockpit and annexes, is to be carried out after the embarkation of passengers and crew and the closing of the doors and windscreen[.]"
2
an addition that extends a main building wordnet
3
An appendix to a book or document. US
4
An addition or extension to a building. US
5
An addition to the territory of a country or state, from a neighbouring country or state, normally by military force. US

Verb

1
To add something to another thing, especially territory; to incorporate. US
"The ancient city of Petra was annexed by Rome."
2
add an extra part to wordnet
3
To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc. US
"to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt"
4
take (territory) as if by conquest wordnet
5
To join; to be united. US, intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French annexe, from Latin annexus. More at Etymology 2.

Etymology 2

From Middle English annexen, anexen, from Old French annexer (“to join”), from Medieval Latin annexāre, infinitive of annexō, frequentative of Latin annectō (“bind to”), from ad (“to”) + nectō (“tie, bind”). Compare the rare annect. Doublet of adnex.

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