sojourn
UK/ˈsɒd͡ʒən//ˈsoʊd͡ʒɚn/
sojourn noun: a short stay somewhere.
Noun
sojourn (plural sojourns)
- A short stay somewhere.
- Better the dark, silent, and fated waves of ocean, than the troubled waves of life. There are some whose sojourn on this earth is brief as it is bitter.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XLIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 367
- But if, as we have seen, Wu's ambivalent attitude toward the conventional route to success originated in his early appreciation of the idealistic virtues of his father, then it is possible that parts of the work could have been written much earlier, perhaps even during his sojourn with his father...1978, Timothy C. Wong, edited by William Schultz, Wu Ching-tzu, Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 30
- A temporary residence.
- Though long detain'd / In that obscure sojourn1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
- Synonyms:
- peregrination
Verb
sojourn (third-person singular simple present sojourns, present participle sojourning, simple past and past participle sojourned)
- To reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger.
- Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 12:30
- The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, […] and here sojourned three days.a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC
sojourn meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Arabic
sojourn in Tamil
- to reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger
- தங்கு taṅku
sojourn in Malayalam
- visit, stay, stop
- തല്ക്കാലവാസം, താല്ക്കാലികവാസം, പ്രവാസം, സ്വല്പകാലം താമസിക്കൽ, വിശ്രമവാസം, വിശ്രമാർത്ഥം തങ്ങൽ
- put up, stay, live
- താല്ക്കാലികമായി താമസിക്കുക, സ്വല്പകാലം താമസിക്കുക, വിശ്രമാർത്ഥം തങ്ങുക, താമസിക്കുക, തങ്ങുക, ഇടയ്ക്കുതങ്ങുക
sojourn in Kannada
- ಬಿಡಾರ, ನಿಲ್ಮನೆ
sojourn in Arabic
- short stay somewhere
- إِقَامَة ʔiqāma
Synonyms of sojourn
Forms of sojourn
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sojourns |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | sojourns |
| present participle | sojourning |
| past participle | sojourned |
| past | sojourned |
Origin of sojourn
From Middle English sojourne (noun) and sojournen (verb), from Old French sojor, sojorner (modern séjour, séjourner), from (assumed) Vulgar Latin *subdiurnāre, from Latin sub- (“under, a little over”) + Late Latin diurnus (“lasting for a day”), from Latin dies (“day”).
Words formed from sojourn
Phrases with sojourn
Questions about sojourn
- What does sojourn mean?
- Sojourn means a short stay somewhere.
- What is sojourn in Tamil?
- Sojourn in Tamil is தங்கு (taṅku). See Sojourn meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is sojourn?
- Sojourn can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce sojourn?
- Sojourn is pronounced /ˈsɒd͡ʒən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of sojourn?
- The plural of sojourn is sojourns.
Words near sojourn in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sojourn (page history and authors); sojourn (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); sojourn (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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