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sojourns

sojourns is the plural of sojourn.

sojourns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sojourn.

Meaning of sojourn

Noun

sojourn (plural sojourns)

  1. 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
  2. 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

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Questions about sojourns

What is sojourns the plural of?
Sojourns is the plural of sojourn.

Words near sojourns in the dictionary

  1. sojourneys
  2. sojourning
  3. sojournings
  4. sojournment
  5. sojournments
  6. sojourns
  7. soju
  8. sojurn
  9. sojus
  10. sojutsu
  11. Sok

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