ADJOURN
Dictionary entry overview: What does adjourn mean?
• ADJOURN (verb)
The verb ADJOURN has 2 senses:
1. close at the end of a session
2. break from a meeting or gathering
Familiarity information: ADJOURN used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ADJOURN (verb)
Meaning:
Close at the end of a session
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
adjourn; recess; break up
Context example:
The court adjourned
Hypernyms (to "adjourn" is one way to...):
cease; end; finish; stop; terminate (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Break from a meeting or gathering
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
adjourn; retire; withdraw
Context examples:
We adjourned for lunch / The men retired to the library
Hypernyms (to "adjourn" is one way to...):
close; close down; close up; fold; shut down (cease to operate or cause to cease operating)
"Adjourn" entails doing...:
assemble; foregather; forgather; gather; meet (collect in one place)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "adjourn"):
prorogue (adjourn by royal prerogative; without dissolving the legislative body)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
