sojourn

English

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɒdʒɜːn/, /ˈsɒdʒən/, /ˈsəʊdʒɜːn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊdʒɚn/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n

Noun

sojourn (plural sojourns)

1. A short stay somewhere.
   • 1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 3, page 367:

     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.

   • 1978, Wong, Timothy C., William Schultz, editor, Wu Ching-tzu‎^[1], Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, LCCN 78-2692, OCLC 462842256, OL 4716291M, page 30:

     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.

   • 2006, Joseph Price Remington, Paul Beringer, Remington: The Science And Practice Of Pharmacy (page 1168)

     The use of vasoconstrictors to increase the sojourn of local anesthetics at the site of infiltration continues […]

2. A temporary residence.

   Synonym: (abroad, obsolete) peregrination

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     Though long detain'd / In that obscure sojourn

Synonyms

• abode

Translations

short stay somewhere

• Arabic: إِقَامَة‎ f (ʾiqāma)
• Belarusian: прабыва́нне n (prabyvánnje), по́быт m (póbyt)
• Bulgarian: пребива́ване (bg) n (prebivávane), престо́й (bg) m (prestój), спи́ране (bg) n (spírane)
• Catalan: estada (ca) f, sojorn m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 停留 (zh) (tíngliú), 旅居 (zh) (lǚjū)

• Czech: pobyt (cs) m
• Danish: ophold n, kort visit n
• Dutch: verblijf (nl) n
• Finnish: oleskelu (fi)
• French: séjour (fr) m
• German: Aufenthalt (de) m
• Icelandic: dvöl (is) f, viðdvöl f
• Italian: soggiorno (it) m
• Japanese: 滞在 (ja) (たいざい, taizai), 滞留 (ja) (たいりゅう, tairyū)
• Korean: 체재(滞在) (ko) (chejae), 체류(滯留) (ko) (cheryu)

• Kyrgyz: болуш (ky) (boluş)
• Macedonian: престој m (prestoj)
• Polish: pobyt (pl) m
• Portuguese: estadia (pt) f
• Romanian: sejur (ro) n
• Russian: пребыва́ние (ru) n (prebyvánije), вре́менное пребыва́ние n (vrémennoje prebyvánije)
• Scottish Gaelic: còmhnaidh f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бо̀равак m

  Roman: bòravak (sh) m

• Slovak: pobyt m
• Slovene: bivanje n
• Spanish: estadía (es) f, estada f
• Swedish: vistelse (sv)
• Ukrainian: перебува́ння n (perebuvánnja), пробува́ння n (probuvánnja), по́бут (uk) m (póbut)

temporary residence

• Bulgarian: временно жилище n (vremenno žilište)
• Czech: přechodný pobyt m, dočasný pobyt m
• Danish: opholdssted n

• Finnish: oleskelu (fi)
• German: Unterkunft (de) f, Obdach (de) n, Übernachtungsmöglichkeit (de) f
• Scottish Gaelic: còmhnaidh f

Verb

sojourn (third-person singular simple present sojourns, present participle sojourning, simple past and past participle sojourned)

1. (intransitive) To reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 12:30:

     Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.

   • a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, OCLC 1287143827:

     The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, […] and here sojourned three days.

Synonyms

• stay over, stop; See also Thesaurus:sojourn

Translations

Stay temporarily

• Bulgarian: пребивавам временно (prebivavam vremenno)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 旅居 (zh), 寄住 (zh)

• Danish: opholde sig
• Finnish: oleskella (fi)
• French: séjourner (fr)
• German: sich aufhalten, verweilen (de), weilen (de), residieren (de)
• Hawaiian: noho malihini
• Icelandic: dveljast um tíma, hafa viðdvöl

• Italian: soggiornare (it)
• Japanese: 滞在する (たいざい-する taizai-suru)
• Korean: 체류 (ko) (cheryu)
• Portuguese: peregrinar (pt), estanciar
• Russian: временно пребывать (vremenno prebyvatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: boraviti (sh)
• Tamil: தங்கு (ta) (taṅku)
• Welsh: ymdeithio (cy)

Related terms

• sojourner
• sojourney

Anagrams

• journos