Definition of sojourn
: a temporary stay
- a sojourn in the country
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Examples of sojourn in a Sentence
- The visit with my father was preceded by a sojourn with my sister, Joy—an artistic type and sometime vegan who plays the part of patient vegetarian whenever her unrepentantly carnivorous brother drops in—and her husband, who were kind enough to pick me up at Heathrow. —John Haney, Gourmet, January 2003
- On a recent sojourn in Sicily, I frequently found myself remembering that page in the children's encyclopedia, because it seemed to me that what I was seeing was as close as I will ever come to the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. —Francine Prose, Atlantic, December 2002
- My mother is Venezuelan, and every year during my childhood we spent a two-month sojourn with her family there. —Alexandra Starr, New Republic, 20 May 2002
Our family enjoyed a two-week sojourn in the mountains.
spent a relaxing sojourn in her friend's summer home
Recent Examples of sojourn from the Web
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Demonstrators gave various reasons for opposing Mr Trump’s sojourn.
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Needless to say, the itinerary will feature a brief sojourn at the home of the deadbeat dad (Bobby Cannavale), conveniently located in the pretty Bay Area town of Sausalito.
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Passionate Mars will be with you from the start of summer all the way until November 13 (minus a short sojourn back to Capricorn late September).
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The community dates back to Elijah’s Damascus sojourn nearly 3,000 ago, but Jewish life really blossomed in the city after 1099, when Christian armies conquered Jerusalem in the First Crusade and massacred the city’s inhabitants.
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Needless to say, the itinerary will feature a brief sojourn at the home of the deadbeat dad (Bobby Cannavale), conveniently located in the pretty Bay Area town of Sausalito.
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The sojourn exposed him to Socialist Realism and upended his own style, which thereafter became more rounded and naturalistic, focused less on historical figures and more on contemporary images of work and toil.
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Given the popularity of Season 2’s sojourn to Shogun World and Maeve, having saved her daughter, in need of a new prime directive, there’s plenty of potential there.
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The sojourn even made the front page of Tuesday’s main newspaper in North Korea.
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Origin and Etymology of sojourn
Middle English sojorn, from Anglo-French sujur, sujurn, from sujurner — see 2sojourn
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First Known Use: 13th century
in the meaning defined above
See Words from the same yearDefinition of sojourn
sojourned;
sojourning;
sojourns
: to stay as a temporary resident : stop
- sojourned for a month at a resort
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sojourner
nounExamples of sojourn in a Sentence
- '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
began their retirement by leisurely sojourning with friends and relatives scattered across the country
Recent Examples of sojourn from the Web
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The residents of Blaine will have to endure the polite hordes of Canadians who sojourn here regularly, congesting local roads, patronizing the booming parcel economy, and emptying grocery-store shelves of their favorite products.
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But after the early 20th century, when President Theodore Roosevelt and his large brood sojourned nearby, its vitality mostly ebbed.
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It was related not long ago by Robert Todd Lincoln, son of the great president, now head of the Pullman Company, to Horace G. Young, a friend since boyhood, now sojourning at the Hotel del Coronado.
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Honeymooners can sojourn in some seriously dreamy digs—like an over-water bungalow—and the Maldives Huvafen Fushi boasts some of the finest.
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Health in the Penthouse If merely sojourning in wellness isn't enough for you, welcome to the rarefied world of wellness real estate, the third-fastest growing wellness market, according to GWI's research.
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On the first night, 18 aspiring journalists and two resident advisors sojourned down to the basement workshop where a young woman had allegedly been murdered.
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With two days off between Games 3 and 4, the Ducks will sojourn to Kelowna, Canada, more than 500 miles away, for that break.
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SOJOURN Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of sojourn for English Language Learners
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: a period of time when you stay in a place as a traveler or guest
SOJOURN Defined for Kids
Definition of sojourn for Students
: a temporary stay
My family enjoyed a week-long sojourn in Europe.
Definition of sojourn for Students
sojourned;
sojourning
: to stay as a temporary resident
- He sojourned for a month at a desert inn.
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