Dictionary Entry

join

Part of SpeechverbPronunciationjɔɪnUsed In Literature ↓

To connect or bring together two or more things, or to become connected or brought together.

In a Sentence

“Let's join the two pieces of wood together to make a stronger frame.”

Origin

From Old French joindre, from Latin jungere 'to join'.

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Poetry examples for “join”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

God that glads the lover's heart,
He is here to join and part.
So the groomsman quits your side

That secret rare with affluence hardly join'd,
Which W----n lost, yet B----y ne'er could find;

Such nastiness, and so much pride
Are oddly join'd by fate:
On her large squab you find her spread,

And, reading, wish like theirs our fate and fame,
So mix'd our studies, and so join'd our name;
Like them to shine through long succeeding age,

The browsing cattle or the piercing steel.
Farewell! and since I cannot bend to join
My lips to yours, advance at least to mine.

15 'Let Warwick's Muse with Ashurst join,
And Ozell's with Lord Hervey's,

The equal lustre of the heavenly mind,
Where every grace with every virtue's join'd:
Learning not vain, and wisdom not severe,

Then various elements against thee join'd,
In one more various animal combined,

The whimpering girl, and hoarser-screaming boy,
Join to the yelping treble shrilling cries;
The scolding quean to louder notes doth rise,

Here orange-trees with blooms and pendants shine,
And vernal honours to their autumn join;
Exceed their promise in the ripen'd store,