sojourn
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verb \ˈsō-ˌjərn, sō-ˈ\Definition of SOJOURN
intransitive verb
: to stay as a temporary resident : stop <sojourned for a month at a resort>
— so·journ·er noun
Examples of SOJOURN
- <began their retirement by leisurely sojourning with friends and relatives scattered across the country>
- ‘Am I hideous, Jane?’ ‘Very, sir: you always were, you know.’ ‘Humph! The wickedness has not been taken out of you, wherever you have sojourned.’ —Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, 1847
- … there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane, who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, “tarried,” in Sleepy Hollow, for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity. —Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleep Hollow, 1820
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