annex
/ˈænɛks/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms annexes annexing annexed annexe anex
- noun An addition, an extension.
- noun An appendix to a book or document.
- noun An addition or extension to a building.
- noun An addition to the territory of a country or state, from a neighboring country or state, normally by military force.
- verb To add something to another thing, especially territory; to incorporate. “The ancient city of Petra was annexed by Rome.”
- verb To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc. “to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt”
- verb (intransitive) To join; to be united.
- verb To take something without permission (informal) “I returned to resume my place but my assistant had already annexed my chair.”
- proper noun A census-designated place in Malheur County, Oregon, United States.
Synonyms
addition supplement augmentation underjoin annexe extension wing
Antonyms
Etymology
Borrowed from French annexe, from Latin annexus. More at Etymology 2. See also an-.
From Middle English annexen, anexen, from Old French annexer (“to join”), from Medieval Latin annexāre, infinitive of annexō, frequentative of Latin annectō (“bind to”), from ad (“to”) + nectō (“tie, bind”). Compare the rare annect. Doublet of adnex.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; --followed by to. "He annexed a codicil to a will." Johnson.
- verb To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater.
- verb To join; to be united. Tooke.
- noun Something annexed or appended; as, an additional stipulation to a writing, a subsidiary building to a main building; a wing.
Etymology [F. annexer, fr. L. annexus, p. p. of annectere to tie or bind to; ad + nectere to tie, to fasten together, akin to Skr. nah to bind.]
Etymology [F. annexe, L. annexus, neut. annexum, p. p. of annectere.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “annex”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details