Conjoined
adj, verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 simple past and past participle of conjoin form-of, participle, past
- 1 Of persons (conjoined twins) or things: joined together physically. not-comparable
"1580s, Ovid, Elegia VI, Book I, translated by Christopher Marlowe, in Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poems and Translations, Stephen Orgel (ed.), Penguin, 1971, p. 110, And farewell cruel posts, rough threshold's block, / And doors conjoined with an hard iron lock!"
- 2 Joined or bound together; united (in a relationship). not-comparable
"If either of you know any inward impediment why you ſhould not be conioyned, I charge you on your ſoules to vtter it."
- 3 Combined. not-comparable
"Their garb and stillness conjoined, present an uniformity, tranquil and herd-like—as in the pasture—"forty feeding like one.""
- 1 consisting of two or more associated entities wordnet
Example
More examples"The term "Siamese twins" comes from two conjoined twins from Siam who travelled with P.T. Barnum's circus."
Etymology
From conjoin + -ed.
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