Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "aaneenlopend" is "deel 'n gemeenskaplike grens; raak; aangrensend." Dit kan gebruik word om dinge of plekke te beskryf wat fisies langsaan of naby mekaar is sonder enige tussenliggende spasie of versperrings.
He has already dug up all the garden two or three times to find the famous spring, and, being unsuccessful, he will soon purchase all the contiguous houses.
The baroness returned to the hotel with as much caution as Eugénie used in leaving it she ran lightly upstairs, and with an aching heart entered her apartment, contiguous, as we know, to that of Eugénie.
where the house stands like a fungus in a muck-heap, chambers for men, horses, oxen, and swine, cleansed and uncleansed, all contiguous to one another!
