sojourn

Borrowed 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”).[1]

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

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n

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.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     Though long detained / In that obscure sojourn […]

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.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Bible, Genesis xii. 30

     Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Hayward

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

• stay over, stop; See also Thesaurus:sojourn

• sojourner

• journos