annex

• Noun:
  • (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈænɛks/
• Verb:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈænɛks/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /əˈnɛks/, /ˈænɛks/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛks

Borrowed from French annexe, from Latin annexus. More at Etymology 2.

• annexe (UK, Australia, New Zealand)
• anex (US)
• annx.
• anx.

annex (plural annexes)

1. An addition, an extension.
2. An appendix to a book or document.
3. An addition or extension to a building.
4. An addition to the territory of a country or state, from a neighbouring country or state, normally by military force.

• (something additional): addition, supplement; See also Thesaurus:adjunct or Thesaurus:augmentation

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.

annex (third-person singular simple present annexes, present participle annexing, simple past and past participle annexed)

1. To add something to another thing, especially territory; to incorporate.

   The ancient city of Petra was annexed by Rome.

   • 2009, Wikipedia:Syngman Rhee:

     In 1910, he returned to Korea, which had by this time been annexed by Japan.

2. To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.
   • 1793, John Horne Tooke, The Constitution of England:

     Under Edward the Second, the Commons began to annex petitions to the bills by which they granted subsidies

   to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt

3. (intransitive) To join; to be united.

• underjoin

• separate

• adnexa

• merge
• fuse
• add

• xenna-

Borrowed from Latin annexus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ənˈnɛks]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aˈnɛks]

annex m (plural annexos)

1. annex (an addition, an extension)
2. annex (an addition to a building)

• annexar

annex (feminine annexa, masculine plural annexos, feminine plural annexes)

1. attached (of a document)

• “annex” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

annex n

1. annex (an addition to a building)
2. annex (an addition, an extension)