conjoin
/kənˈd͡ʒɔɪn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.55 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To join as coordinate elements, often with a coordinating conjunction, such as coordinate clauses.
Transitive verb
verb
To combine two sets, conditions, or expressions by a logical AND; to intersect.
Transitive verb
noun
One of the words or phrases that are coordinated by a conjunction.
noun
A reassembled bone, stone or ceramic artifact.
Example Sentences
- "They are representatives that will loosely conjoin a nation."
- "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."
- "I will conjoin you in holy matrimony."
- "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."
- "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!"
- "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."
Etymology
From Old French conjoindre, from Latin coniungo, from con- (“together”) + iungo (“join”). Equivalent to con- + join.
Origin
- Source language: Latin