contiguous

Connected; touching; abutting.

Adjective

Connected; touching; abutting.
- It was in this haphazard way that Mr Carrados was fated to be drawn into the curious Shakespeare case—a gossipy letter from an American friend coupled with the Stratford-on-Avon outrage, and the contiguous circumstance...
Adjacent; neighboring.
- 1730–1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of...
- […] the usual quietness of the day, with us, was broken in upon by the shout of success from the pursuing boats, followed by vehement respondings from the contiguous ship. - 1835, William Scoresby, Memorials of the Sea,...
Connecting without a break.
- the forty-eight contiguous states
- Supposing three such houses to be contiguous to a central one, each separated from the latter by a straight wall. - 1886, Frank Hamilton Cushing, A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth:

From Latin contiguus (“touching”) + -ous, from contingere (“to touch”); see contingent, contact, contagion.