adjacent
adjective
ad·ja·cent
ə-ˈjā-sᵊnt 
1
a
: having a common endpoint or border
adjacent lots
adjacent walls
the property adjacent to ours
adjacent sides of a triangle
b
: not distant : nearby
the city and adjacent suburbs
The arid conditions in California's Death Valley can be partially attributed to the adjacent mountains …—
Frederick K. Lutgens et al.
c
: immediately preceding or following with nothing similar intervening
an adjacent paragraph
… a would-be bank robber who mistook the entrance to an adjacent store for his objective.—William Murray
2
of two angles
: having the vertex and one side in common
adjacently
adverb
Examples of adjacent in a Sentence
The Harrimans owned two large adjacent houses on N Street, one for themselves and one for Averell Harriman's pictures.
—Larry McMurtry, New York Times Review of Books, 23 Oct. 2003
Hearing unexpected chords was linked to magnetic activity in a left-brain region known as Broca's area and in adjacent right-brain tissue.
—Bruce Bower, Science News, 5 May 2001
The hallways, especially those adjacent to the satellite phone, were crowded with journalists, avid to cover the Taliban takeover …
—Michael Ignatieff, New Yorker, 24 Mar. 1997
Digging further in that spot and five adjacent areas, they retrieved 19 skulls, five eggs, over 150 jaws and hundreds of teeth, limbs and bone bits.
—Natalie Angier, Time, 8 Oct. 1984
their house is adjacent to a wooded park
Recent Examples on the Web
The original diamond—built specifically for the 1989 movie using two adjoining farms and preserved exactly as seen on screen—remains the heart of the attraction, but a sparkling new pro ballpark and adjacent museum are set to open by mid-June.
—Taryn Shorr-McKee, Midwest Living, 11 Jan. 2026
Its strikingly unusual forms might have risen from the ooze of the adjacent La Brea Tar Pits.
—Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026
Where to Eat Flamingo Restaurant, adjacent to the Flamingo Lodge, is the only full-service restaurant in the park.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2026
Several hundred people turned out over the course of the afternoon, filling the main parking area and forcing others to park in an adjacent hospital clinic lot and a nearby strip mall as a steady stream of visitors continued to arrive.
—Stephen Sorace , Adam Sabes , Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 11 Jan. 2026
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“Adjacent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adjacent. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
Kids Definition
adjacent
adjective
ad·ja·cent
ə-ˈjās-ᵊnt
1
: lying next or near : having a border or point in common
a field adjacent to the road
2
: having a vertex or a vertex and side in common
adjacent angles
adjacent sides of a rectangle
adjacently
adverb
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