Sojourn Meaning
/ˈsɒd͡ʒən/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA short stay somewhere.
nounA temporary residence.
Sentence Examples
The family enjoyed a brief sojourn in a quiet villa in Italy.
A sojourn is a temporary stay in a place that is not your home.
They enjoyed a brief sojourn in Paris during the summer.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
During her short ____ in the village, she learned many local customs.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
After a brief ____ in the capital city, the traveler continued her journey to the mountains.
Word Origin & History
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”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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 in Chiang-su."
— 1978, Timothy C. Wong, edited by William Schultz, Wu Ching-tzu, Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 30:
"The use of vasoconstrictors to increase the sojourn of local anesthetics at the site of infiltration continues[…]"
— 2006, Joseph Price Remington, Paul Beringer, Remington: The Science And Practice Of Pharmacy, page 1168:
"Though long detain'd / In that obscure sojourn"
— 1667, 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 as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
"Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there."
— 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 12:30:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
During her short ____ in the village, she learned many local customs.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
After a brief ____ in the capital city, the traveler continued her journey to the mountains.