Conjoined Meaning
/kˌɑˈndʒɔɪnd/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjOf persons (conjoined twins) or things: joined together physically.
adjJoined or bound together; united (in a relationship).
Sentence Examples
This truck stop has a conjoined fast food restaurant.
The landmark surgery that separated the conjoined twins seven months ago lasted 23 hours.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The surgeons successfully separated the ____ twins after a risky operation.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The hospital successfully performed a complex surgery to gently separate the ____ twins.
Word Origin & History
From conjoin + -ed.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Now envy and antipathy, passions irreconcilable in reason, nevertheless in fact may spring conjoined like Chang and Eng in one birth."
— 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter XI.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC, page 256:
"Blood vessels are fused to increase circulation and these conjoined or grafted veins and arteries make great painful lumps which have to be soaked daily."
— 1982, Saul Bellow, The Dean's December, New York: Pocket Books, page 184:
"These 'signatures' (in Arabic ‘alāmāt; singular, ‘alāma) typically consisted of a phrase of up to half a dozen conjoined words written as a monogram in which the reed pen usually maintained contact with the parchment throughout."
— 2009, Alex Metcalfe, chapter 10, in The Muslims of Medieval Italy, Edinburgh University Press, page 196:
"If either of you know any inward impediment why you ſhould not be conioyned, I charge you on your ſoules to vtter it."
— 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], signatures F3, recto – F3, verso:
"O my lord / The glory of whose new state is hidden from us, / Pray for us of your charity; now in the sight of God / Conjoined with all the saints and martyrs gone before you, / Remember us."
— 1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., Part II, p. 83:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The surgeons successfully separated the ____ twins after a risky operation.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The hospital successfully performed a complex surgery to gently separate the ____ twins.