Synonyms:
adjacent, next, side_by_side(p)
Meaning: nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space; "had adjacent rooms"; "in the next room"; "the person sitting next to me"; "our rooms were side by side"
Synonyms:
adjacent, conterminous, contiguous, neighboring(a)
Meaning: having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching; "Rhode Island has two bordering states; Massachusetts and Conncecticut"; "the side of Germany conterminous with France"; "Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho"; "neighboring cities"
Synonyms:
adjacent
Meaning: near or close to but not necessarily touching; "lands adjacent to the mountains"; "New York and adjacent cities"
Usage examples
The cat, I remembered, had been hung in a garden adjacent to the house.
The adjacent strata may be changed only in color, hardness, and texture.
I did not, and Wrent knows too much to risk himself at a time that he can be seen from the windows of the adjacent houses.
Now Agamemnon's was a continental power; and he could not have been master of any except the adjacent islands (and these would not be many), but through the possession of a fleet.
And on account of the charges and expenses which would be incurred by the Venetian government whilst rendering assistance to the Most Christian king in the aforesaid war, the Most Christian king bound himself to approve and consent that the city of Cremona and certain forts or territories adjacent, specially indicated, should belong in freehold and perpetuity to the Venetian government.
This would be the more likely to take place, as the delinquencies of the larger members might be expected sometimes to proceed from an ambitious premeditation in their rulers, with a view to getting rid of all external control upon their designs of personal aggrandizement; the better to effect which it is presumable they would tamper beforehand with leading individuals in the adjacent States.