sojourn

English

Etymology

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.
   • 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.

   Though long detained / In that obscure sojourn. — Milton.

Translations

A short stay somewhere

• Catalan: estada (ca) f
• Czech: pobyt m
• Danish: ophold n
• Finnish: oleskelu
• French: séjour (fr) m
• German: Aufenthalt (de) m
• Icelandic: dvöl (is) f, viðdvöl f
• Italian: soggiorno (it) m
• Polish: pobyt (pl), pobyt (pl) m

• Portuguese: estadia (pt) f
• Romanian: sejur (ro) n
• Russian: временное пребывание (vrémennoje prebyvánije) n, пребывание (ru) n (prebyvánije)
• Scottish Gaelic: còmhnaidh f
• Serbo-Croatian: boravak m
• Spanish: estadía (es) f
• Swedish: vistelse (sv)

A temporary residence

• Danish: opholdssted n
• Finnish: oleskelu

• 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.
   • Bible, Genesis xii. 30

     Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.

   • Hayward

     The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned three days.

Conjugation

• The archaic third-person singular present active indicative form sojourneth is also attested.

Translations

Stay temporarily

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 旅居，寄住

• Danish: opholde sig
• Finnish: oleskella (fi)
• French: séjourner (fr)

• Icelandic: dveljast um tíma, hafa viðdvöl
• Italian: soggiornare (it)
• Portuguese: peregrinar (pt)
• Serbo-Croatian: boraviti
• Welsh: ymdeithio (cy)

Related terms

• sojourner

Anagrams

• journos