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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

accompanying, adjacent, adjoining, agreeing, bordering, buck, coetaneous, coeternal, coeval, coexistent, coexisting, coinstantaneous, collateral, combat, concomitant, concurrent, connecting, contemporaneous, contemporary, contend, contiguous, coterminous, dispute, duel, end to end, endeavor, endways, endwise, face to face, fight, immediate, isochronal, isochronous, joined, juxtaposed, neighbor, neighboring, next, oppose, repel, rival, simultaneous, traverse, unison, unisonous, vie, withstand

Dictionary Results for conterminous:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

conterminous
    adj 1: connecting without a break; within a common boundary;
           "the 48 conterminous states"; "the contiguous 48 states"
           [syn: conterminous, contiguous]
    2: having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching; "Rhode
       Island has two bordering states; Massachusetts and
       Conncecticut"; "the side of Germany conterminous with
       France"; "Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho";
       "neighboring cities" [syn: adjacent, conterminous,
       contiguous, neighboring(a)]
    3: being of equal extent or scope or duration [syn:
       coextensive, coterminous, conterminous]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Conterminous \Con*ter"mi*nous\, a. [L. conterminus. Cf.
   Conterminous.]
   Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon;
   contiguous.
   [1913 Webster]

         This conformed so many of them as were conterminous to
         the colonies and garrisons, to the Roman laws. --Sir M.
                                                  Hale.
   [1913 Webster] Conterranean

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