Sojourn
['sɒdʒɜːn] or ['sʌdʒɝn]
Definition
(noun.) a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest).
(verb.) spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily.
Typed by Avery--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To dwell for a time; to dwell or live in a place as a temporary resident or as a stranger, not considering the place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry.
(v. i.) A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land.
Typed by Doreen
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Abide (temporarily), stay, tarry, lodge, rest, STOP, take up one's quarters, pitch one's tent, put up, take lodgings, have lodgings.
n. Stay, temporary abode.
Typist: Ruben
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Rest,[See SOCIABLE], reside, tarry, lodge, halt, stay, quarter
ANT:Migrate, move, Wonder, depart, travel, journey
Inputed by Enoch
Definition
v.t. to stay for a day: to dwell for a time.—n. a temporary residence.—ns. Sō′journer; Sō′journing Sō′journment the act of dwelling in a place for a time.
Edited by Claudette
Examples
- I can see already that he means to live on excellent terms with all of us during the period of his sojourn in this place. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- To-day I approached the subject of my proposed sojourn under his wife's roof when he brings her back to England. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was on a Thursday in the week, and nearly at the end of the third month of my sojourn in Cumberland. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- My sojourn in New York was shorter, but long enough to enable me to see the city very well. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- During a two years' sojourn in Italy he had collected many good paintings and tasteful rarities, with which his residence was now adorned. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You may think that I read the papers with some attention during my sojourn in France, on the look-out for any chance of laying him by the heels. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Near the spot we sailed from, the Holy Family dwelt when they sojourned in Egypt till Herod should complete his slaughter of the innocents. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Feathered species sojourned here in hiding which would have created wonder if found elsewhere. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- As for Robert, from Birmingham he had gone on to London, where he still sojourned. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The wickedness has not been taken out of you, wherever you have sojourned. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Therefore they went through such parties as fell in their way where they sojourned at that time, and journeyed back toward Ephesus again. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Oliver had been sojourning at the undertaker's some three weeks or a month. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
Inputed by Alan