Join Meaning
/ˈd͡ʒɔɪn/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo connect or combine into one; to put together.
verbTo come together; to meet.
Sentence Examples
I take it for granted that you will join.
All you have to do is to join us.
Join one section of pipe to the next.
CEFR Practice Quiz
To make new friends, she decided to ____ the local art club after work.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
If you want to ____ the club, you need to fill out an application form and pay a small annual fee.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English joinen, joynen, joignen, from Old French joindre, juindre, jungre, from Latin iungō (“join, yoke”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *yewg- (“to join, unite”). Cognate with Old English iucian, iugian, ġeocian, ġyċċan (“to join; yoke”). More at yoke.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Forſake thy king and do but ioyne with me
And we will triumph ouer al the world."
— c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
"[…]Nature and Fortune ioyn’d to make thee great."
— c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 8, column 2:
"No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait."
— 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:
"In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time."
— 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
"Into the whiche holy eſtate theſe two perſones pꝛeſent: come nowe to be ioyned."
— 1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “Of Matrimony”, in The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: […] Edowardi Whitchurche […], →OCLC, folio xiii, recto:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
To make new friends, she decided to ____ the local art club after work.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
If you want to ____ the club, you need to fill out an application form and pay a small annual fee.