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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sojourn \So"journ\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sojourned; p. pr. & vb. n. Sojourning.] [OE. sojornen, sojournen, OF. sojorner, sejorner, F. s['e]journer, fr. L. sub under, about + diurnus belonging to the day. See Journal, Diurnal.] To dwell for a time; to dwell or live in a place as a temporary resident or as a stranger, not considering the place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry.
Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.
--Gen.
xii. 30.
Home he goeth, he might not longer sojourn.
--Chaucer.
The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there
sojourned three days.
--Hayward.
Sojourn \So"journ\, n. [Cf. OF. sujurn, sujur, sejor, F. s['e]jour. See Sojourn, v. i.] A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land.
Though long detained
In that obscure sojourn.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., "stay temporarily, reside for a time; visit;" also "reside permanently, dwell;" from Old French sojorner "stay or dwell for a time," from Vulgar Latin *subdiurnare "to spend the day" (source also of Italian soggiornare), from Latin sub- "under, until" (see sub-) + diurnare "to last long," from diurnus "of a day," from diurnum "day" (see diurnal). Modern French séjourner formed via vowel dissimilation. Related: Sojourned; sojourning.
mid-13c., "temporary stay, visit," from Anglo-French sojorn, variant of Old French sejorn, from sejorner "stay or dwell for a time" (see sojourn (v.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A short stay somewhere. 2 A temporary residence. vb. (context intransitive English) To reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger.
WordNet
n. a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest) [syn: visit]
v. spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily
Wikipedia
Sojourn was a fantasy comic book series published by CrossGen about the adventures of the archer Arwyn and her friend Gareth as they traveled in a fantasy world with dragons, trolls, and magic. Starting in 2001, it ran for 35 issues (including a prequel) before it was forced to end by the bankruptcy of CrossGen in 2004. For a time, this series was Crossgen's highest grossing comic.
Sojourn is the third book in The Dark Elf Trilogy, written by R. A. Salvatore.
A sojourn is an impermanent stay reached by journey, or a period of temporary residence. (The words sojourn and journey are cognate through their roots in the French word jour, meaning "day".)
Sojourn may also refer to:
- Sojourn (comics), a CrossGen comic book series
- Sojourn (journal), an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia
- Sojourn (online game), a MUD (text-based online role-playing game)
- Sojourn (album), an album by jazz pianist Mickey Tucker
- Sojourn, the third novel in The Dark Elf Trilogy by R. A. Salvatore
- the trade name of the general anaesthetic sevoflurane
- Sojourn Music, a musical collective consisting of members of Sojourn Community Church in Louisville, KY
Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia is a leading interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. The areas of special concern are ethnicity, religion, urbanization, migration, and development. The journal includes articles, research notes and comments, notices on conferences, workshops and seminars, and book reviews, as well as occasional English translations of pivotal research published in Southeast Asian languages. It is published twice a year, in April and October.
Sojourn is an album by pianist Mickey Tucker which was recorded in 1977 and released on the Xanadu label.
Usage examples of "sojourn".
With this fellowship they came safely and with little pain unto Chestnut Vale, where they abode but one night, though to Ralph and Ursula the place was sweet for the memory of their loving sojourn there.
The poison rain was a soup of industrial by-products, still falling from their long sojourn in the upper atmosphere.
She prepared the iced water which he was in the habit of constantly drinking,for since his sojourn at the kiosk he had been parched by the most violent fever,after which she anointed his white beard with perfumed oil, and lighted his chibouque, which he sometimes smoked for hours together, quietly watching the wreaths of vapor that ascended in spiral clouds and gradually melted away in the surrounding atmosphere.
She prepared the iced water which he was in the habit of constantly drinking, -- for since his sojourn at the kiosk he had been parched by the most violent fever, -- after which she anointed his white beard with perfumed oil, and lighted his chibouque, which he sometimes smoked for hours together, quietly watching the wreaths of vapor that ascended in spiral clouds and gradually melted away in the surrounding atmosphere.
French emigrant, should, unless he had permission previously to the place, make a longer sojourn than was allowed to foreign travellers.
He failed in both efforts, and afterward wrote an account of the performance for a German newspaper, which is one of the best specimens of the feuilleton style which his sojourn in Paris provoked.
And now, excited by the near prospect of comparative rest and freedom, I exulted in the idea of exchanging the red--lined roads and yellow mullock heaps, the iron or wooden shanties, the sombre shadeless forest, amid which I had sojourned so long, for the cool streets, the lofty freestone walls, the massed flower thickets, and the unfamiliar luxuries of the City of the Sea.
Cardinal Peter of Capua arrived in France about Christmas time in 1197 and, after a brief sojourn in the capital of the Capets, procured a parley of the kings at a place on the Seine between Gaillard and Vernon.
RETURN TO VENICE Thus Casanova ended his Memoirs, concluding his narrative with his sojourn at Trieste, in January 1774, where he had remained, except for a few excursions, since the 15th November 1772.
In those days she told him of her farings since that night of April when she escaped out of Krothering: how first she found harbourage at By in Westmark, but hearing in a day or two of a hue and cry fled east again, and sojourning awhile beside Throwater came at length about a month ago upon this cave beside the little fountain, and here abode.
Though Doris is more knowledgeable of the trade, Nellie has been surprisingly observant during her short sojourn.
She appeared slightly the better for her sojourn among Hwyl and his people - her long hair was neatly braided, and her clothes were clean - and since she appeared well treated and content, I turned away and thought no more about her.
The inner city-world of Lusus was much as I remembered it from my brief sojourn there: a series of Hive towers above the vertical canyons of gray metal.
Wiesman, in 1893, reported a rhinolith, which was composed of a cherry-stone enveloped in chalk, that had been removed after a sojourn of sixty years, with intense ozena as a consequence of its lodgment.
After my sojourn in Simba Town I had become possessed of a love of life in the open.