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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

別館

Pronunciation / Transliteration: bekkan

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Annex/əˈnɛks/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"美術館の別館で特別展が開催されています。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A building joined to or associated with a main building, often providing additional space or accommodation.

    "The hospital built a new psychiatric annex to accommodate more patients."
As verb
  1. 1

    To add or attach an extra or subordinate part, especially a document to a larger work, or to incorporate territory into an existing country or state.

    "The government decided to annex the disputed territory following the referendum."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'annectere', meaning to tie or fasten to (from 'ad-' to + 'nectere' to bind), passing through Old French 'annexer' in the 14th century. Over time, the term evolved from meaning simply to attach or connect physically to denoting the incorporation of territory into a larger political entity, as well as an added building.

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