All 3 Uses of
adjacent
in
War and Peace
- To the left the horizon bounded by the adjacent wood.†
Chpt 2 *
- The strategic position where the operations would take place was familiar in all its details to the Austrian General Weyrother: a lucky accident had ordained that the Austrian army should maneuver the previous year on the very fields where the French had now to be fought; the adjacent locality was known and shown in every detail on the maps, and Bonaparte, evidently weakened, was undertaking nothing.†
Chpt 3
- The first Russians to enter Moscow were the Cossacks of Wintzingerode's detachment, peasants from the adjacent villages, and residents who had fled from Moscow and had been hiding in its vicinity.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(adjacent) very near -- often directly beside