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.
   • 1949, World Health Organization, Report on the 1st- Session May 10-15‎^[1], page 19:

     6.2.3.2.2. For aircraft having pressurized cabins, the disinsection of cabins and annexes, cockpit and annexes, is to be carried out after the embarkation of passengers and crew and the closing of the doors and windscreen[.]

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.

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

   • 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

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]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

annex n

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