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Definition: Conjoined |
ConjoinedAdjective1. Consisting of two or more associated entities; "the interplay of these conjoined yet opposed factors"; "social order and prosperity, the conjoint aims of government"- J.K.Fairbank. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "conjoined" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Synonym: ConjoinedSynonym: conjoint (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Conjoined |
| English words defined with "conjoined": Amongst, Anglo- ♦ conjoint ♦ hendiadys ♦ run-on sentence ♦ Tricorporate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "conjoined": Zebulun, Tribe of. (references) |
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| Author | Quotation |
Gaius Petronius | Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined. |
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| "Conjoined" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Conjoined" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 66.67% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 16.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 8.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "conjoined": conjoined twin ♦ conjoined twins. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "conjoined"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | موحد (combined, consolidated, integrated, merged, unified, united). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Siamese tweeling (conjoined twins). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yhteenkasvaneet kaksoset (conjoined twins), siamilaiset kaksoset (conjoined twins). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | jumeaux conjoints (conjoined twins). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | verbunden (adjunct, adjunctive, adjuratory, aligned, associated, beholden, chained, conjoint, connected, incorporated, interconnected, joined, merged, obliged, related, United), verband (agglutinated, assoc, association, bandage, bandaged, bond, braid, conglomerated, connection, dressing, federation, fillet, formation, joined, league, mated, string, tie, unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | σιαμαίοι (conjoined twins), ενωμένοι δίδυμοι (conjoined twins), δίδυμοι σιαμαίοι (siamese twins). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | incompleta duplicazione dei foglietti embrionari per cui una o più regioni del corpo derivano dai foglietti di entrambi gli embrioni (conjoined twins), gemelli congiunti (conjoined twins). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onjoinedcay gemelos unidos (conjoined twins), gemelos siameses (conjoined twins). (various references) yapışık ikizler (conjoined twins, siamese twins). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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"Conjoined" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: concoined. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "conjoined" (pronounced kÄ'njoy"nd) |
| 5 | -n j oy" n d | enjoined. |
| 4 | -j oy" n d | joined, rejoined. |
| 3 | -oy" n d | coined, groined, purloined. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-j-n-n-o-o" | |
-1 letter: cojoined. | |
-2 letters: condone, conjoin. | |
-3 letters: codein, coined, cojoin, conine, conned, conoid, donjon, enjoin, ionone, joined. | |
-4 letters: coden, codon, condo, coned, conin, cooed, djinn, donne, inned, nonce, odeon, onion. | |
-5 letters: cedi, cine, cion, code, coed, coin, cone, coni, conn, coon, deco, deni, dice, dine, djin, dojo, done, iced, icon, jeon, jinn, join, neon, nice, nide, nine. | |
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