Literary notes about Adjacent (AI summary)
The word “adjacent” frequently appears in literary works to convey a sense of physical or conceptual proximity. Authors use it to describe settings where objects, locations, or ideas lie side by side—a theater’s wall near playbills “[1]”, or neighboring geographical regions and territories “[2], [3]”. It is employed to underscore closeness in both natural and built environments, as in descriptions of a woodland bordering a horizon “[4]” or a room linked to an adjoining chamber “[5]”. Even in technical contexts, such as in geometric explanations where two angles are indicated as next to one another “[6]”, “adjacent” subtly informs the reader about spatial relationships that enhance the narrative’s detail and clarity.
- The light shone upon the playbills on an adjacent wall; the theatres were open.
— from The History of a Crime by Victor Hugo - So called, either from an adjacent mountain of that name, or its founder, Anazarbus.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny - By diplomacy and success in arms he became almost supreme ruler of Albania, Epirus, and adjacent territory.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - To the left the horizon bounded by the adjacent wood.
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - The room and the deserted kitchen adjacent to it were to let.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams - To prove that two adjacent angles are equal to two right angles people describe a circle.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
