adjoining room
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2.8
- noun
- /əˈdʒɔɪnɪŋ ruːm/
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habitación contigua
- After checking in, we discovered that our adjoining room had a door connecting to our friend's suite.
- door to an adjoining room
- two adjoining rooms
- small adjoining room
We tell them that the meeting's at a Marriott, we get adjoining rooms.
- We tell them that the meeting's at a Marriott, we get adjoining rooms.
Examples
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Yes, we can get you two adjoining rooms.
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Behind us, one by one, the lights were going off in the adjoining room.
Fiction book (1996) -
I sure am glad you gave us adjoining rooms.
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I took the adjoining room so I could keep an eye on him.
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Then he could hear someone singing in the adjoining room.
Fiction book (2001) -
Mrs. Cross is a friend of Lady Susan and should be in the adjoining room.
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Uh, we'd like adjoining rooms.
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Mrs. Ferrier came out of the adjoining room to tell me everything was fine.
Fiction book (1995) -
Two adjoining rooms.
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Mrs. Dribb, place the boys in 14B, and keep the young lady in your adjoining room.
How Connected
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a room that shares a wall with another room' is directly and compositionally derived from 'adjoin' (to lie next to) plus 'room' — the adjective + noun structure transparently signals a spatial relation. This is a common, predictable pattern across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Adjoining room describes two rooms that are adjoining, literally 'joined' or 'next to' each other and often with a door between them. So it means hotel rooms that share a wall or have a connecting door, making it easy for people to stay close.