ANNEX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does annex mean? 

• ANNEX (noun)
  The noun ANNEX has 1 sense:

1. an addition that extends a main building

  Familiarity information: ANNEX used as a noun is very rare.

• ANNEX (verb)
  The verb ANNEX has 2 senses:

1. take (territory) as if by conquest

2. attach to

  Familiarity information: ANNEX used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANNEX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An addition that extends a main building

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

annex; annexe; extension; wing

Hypernyms ("annex" is a kind of...):

add-on; addition; improver (a component that is added to something to improve it)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "annex"):

ell (an extension at the end and at right angles to the main building)

Holonyms ("annex" is a part of...):

building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)

Derivation:

annex (attach to)

• ANNEX (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they annex ... he / she / it annexes
Past simple: annexed   
Past participle: annexed   
-ing form: annexing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take (territory) as if by conquest

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

Hitler annexed Lithuania

Hypernyms (to "annex" is one way to...):

arrogate; assume; seize; take over; usurp (seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "annex"):

colonise; colonize (settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Attach to

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "annex" is one way to...):

add on; affix; append; supplement (add to the very end)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

annex (an addition that extends a main building)

 Context examples 

“We will not quarrel for the greater share of blame annexed to that evening,” said Elizabeth.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I made my humblest acknowledgment to this illustrious person, for his great communicativeness; and promised, if ever I had the good fortune to return to my native country, that I would do him justice, as the sole inventor of this wonderful machine; the form and contrivance of which I desired leave to delineate on paper, as in the figure here annexed.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Their attention and wit were drawn off to his more fortunate rival; and the raillery which the other had incurred before any partiality arose, was removed when his feelings began really to call for the ridicule so justly annexed to sensibility.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

As to all that, rejoined Sir Walter coolly, supposing I were induced to let my house, I have by no means made up my mind as to the privileges to be annexed to it.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)