sojourn

CEFRC1

/ˈsɒd͡ʒən/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A short stay in a place away from home.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A temporary residence.

Examples

  • A sojourn is a temporary stay in a place that is not your home.

  • The family enjoyed a brief sojourn in a quiet villa in Italy.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /ˈsoʊd͡ʒɚn/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. To reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger.

  2. A short stay somewhere.

More examples

In context

  • They enjoyed a brief sojourn in Paris during the summer.

  • 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.

  • Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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”).