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adjournal

adjournal noun: adjournment; postponement.

Noun

adjournal (countable and uncountable, plural adjournals)

  1. (dated) adjournment; postponement
    • Availing themselves of an adjournal of the Diet for the Easter holidays1827, [Walter Scott], The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), Edinburgh: […] Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green...

Forms of adjournal

pluraladjournals

Origin of adjournal

From adjourn + -al.

Words formed from adjournal

Phrases with adjournal

Questions about adjournal

What does adjournal mean?
Adjournal means adjournment; postponement.
What part of speech is adjournal?
Adjournal is a noun.
What is the plural of adjournal?
The plural of adjournal is adjournals.

Words near adjournal in the dictionary

  1. adjointness
  2. adjointnesses
  3. adjoints
  4. adjourn
  5. adjournable
  6. adjournal
  7. adjournals
  8. adjourned
  9. adjourner
  10. adjourners
  11. adjourneth

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