join

1. 1.

   the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made

   Synonymsarticulationjointjuncturejunction

   Broaderconnection

   Narroweresophagogastric junction
2. 2.

   a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets

   “let C be the union of the sets A and B”

   Synonymsunionsum

   Broaderset

   Narrowerdirect sum

Other forms of join

plural

joins·

past tense

joined·

present participle

joining·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about join

What does join mean?

join means "become part of; become a member of a group or organization". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in join?

join has 1 syllable: join. In IPA it is /ˈdʒɔɪn/.

What is another word for join?

Close synonyms include fall in, get together, conjoin, connect, link. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of join?

The recorded antonyms are disjoin, disjoin.

Is join a common word?

join is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with join?

4 words rhyme with join. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.