Log in or Sign up
  1. adjourn love

Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To suspend until a later stated time.
  2. v. To suspend proceedings to another time or place.
  3. v. To move from one place to another: After the meal we adjourned to the living room.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To put off or defer, properly to another day, but also till a later period indefinitely.
  2. Specifically To suspend the meeting of, as a public or private body, to a future day or to another place; also, defer or postpone to a future meeting of the same body: as, the court adjourned the consideration of the question.
  3. To suspend a sitting or transaction till another day, or transfer it to another place: usually said of legislatures, courts, or other formally organized bodies: as, the legislature adjourned at four o'clock; the meeting adjourned to the town hall.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To postpone.
  2. v. transitive Temporarily ending an event with intentions to complete it at another time or place.
  3. v. intransitive Of an event: To end or suspend
  4. v. intransitive, formal, uncommon To move from one place to another.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body
  2. v. To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. break from a meeting or gathering
  2. v. close at the end of a session

Etymologies

  1. From Old French ajorner (French ajourner), from the phrase a jor (nomé) ("to an (appointed) day") (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English ajournen, from Old French ajourner : a-, to (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + jour, day (from Late Latin diurnum, from Latin diurnus, daily, from diēs, day. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

Show 10 more examples...

Log in or sign up to add your own related words.

synonyms (6)

Words with the same meaning

  1. suspend
  1. defer
  1. postpone
  1. delay
  1. put off
  1. rise

hypernyms (5)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. stop
  1. finish
  1. terminate
  1. cease
  1. end

same context (8)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. `set
  1. physiognomist
  1. annexe
  1. wrap-up
  1. plain-song
  1. think'st
  1. boxlike
  1. armour-bearer

rhymes (39)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Bern
  2. Berne
  3. Fern
  4. Hearn
  5. Herne
  6. Kern
  7. Laverne
  1. Stern
  2. Sterne
  3. Verne
  4. burn
  5. burne
  6. byrne
  7. cherne
  1. churn
  2. concern
  3. dern
  4. discern
  5. durn
  6. earn
  7. erne
  1. fern
  2. hearn
  3. hern
  4. hirn
  5. kearn
  6. kern
  7. kirn
  1. learn
  2. return
  3. sauterne
  4. spurn
  5. stern
  6. stirn
  7. turn
  1. unconcern
  2. upturn
  3. urn
  4. yearn

reverse dictionary (14)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. prorogue
  2. adjurn
  1. readjourn
  2. rejourn
  1. day
  2. here
  1. continue
  2. rise
  1. pass
  2. postpone
  1. arise
  2. procrastinate
  1. recess
  2. respite

Wordmap

(beta)

Word visualization

Lists

These user-created lists contain the word ‘adjourn’.

More lists containing ‘adjourn’

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

Tweets

Looking for tweets for adjourn.

‘adjourn’ has been looked up 2161 times, loved by 1 person, added to 19 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 15.