Other forms: adjourned, adjourning, adjourns
To adjourn is to break off a meeting until another time. Adjourn the hearing, the court adjourned, adjourn for lunch.
It is the formal word for pausing proceedings, with the implication that they will resume — a meeting adjourns and a matter is closed. Court is adjourned is the phrase everybody knows. It is also used lightly and jokingly of moving somewhere else: let us adjourn to the pub. Note adjournment; and that the word means literally to put off to a day.
1verbadjournTo break off a meeting until another time.
“The judge adjourned the trial until Monday so the witness could recover.”
adjourn is a suspension of proceedings.
Old French ajorner comes from the phrase a jorn, to a day, from Latin diurnum. Journey, journal and diary come from the same day.
Old French
ajorner
Middle English
ajournen
English, today
adjourn
From Middle English ajournen, from Old French ajorner (French ajourner), from the phrase a jor (nomer) ("to an (appointed) day").
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA