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[ adjective ] having a common boundary or edge; touching
Examples "abutting lots" "adjoining rooms" "Rhode Island has two bordering states Massachusetts and Connecticut" "the side of Germany conterminous with France" "Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho" Used in print (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)He turned from the flying trees to look ahead and saw with an inward boy 's eye again the great fieldstone house which , built on one of the many acres of ancestral land bordering the west harbor , had been Izaak 's bride-gift to his cousin wife as the last century ended . Related terms |
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