SOJOURN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sojourn mean? 

• SOJOURN (noun)
  The noun SOJOURN has 1 sense:

1. a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest)

  Familiarity information: SOJOURN used as a noun is very rare.

• SOJOURN (verb)
  The verb SOJOURN has 1 sense:

1. spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily

  Familiarity information: SOJOURN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOJOURN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A temporary stay (e.g., as a guest)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

sojourn; visit

Hypernyms ("sojourn" is a kind of...):

stay (continuing or remaining in a place or state)

Derivation:

sojourn (spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily)

• SOJOURN (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they sojourn    ... he / she / it sojourns   
Past simple: sojourned   
Past participle: sojourned   
-ing form: sojourning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "sojourn" is one way to...):

pass; spend (use up a period of time in a specific way)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

sojourn (a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest))

sojourner (a temporary resident)

 Context examples 

Humph! The wickedness has not been taken out of you, wherever you have sojourned.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This would be an ideal time for a sojourn into the country and to take artistic photographs along the way.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You may think that I read the papers with some attention during my sojourn in France, on the look-out for any chance of laying him by the heels.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His wretched physical condition explained why he lingered; and when he had recuperated, after several days' sojourn, he disappeared.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The sight of so many good-humoured faces (especially the blacks), the taste of the tropical fruits, and above all the lights that began to shine in the town made a most charming contrast to our dark and bloody sojourn on the island; and the doctor and the squire, taking me along with them, went ashore to pass the early part of the night.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I told him, “that in the kingdom of Tribnia, by the natives called Langdon, where I had sojourned some time in my travels, the bulk of the people consist in a manner wholly of discoverers, witnesses, informers, accusers, prosecutors, evidences, swearers, together with their several subservient and subaltern instruments, all under the colours, the conduct, and the pay of ministers of state, and their deputies. The plots, in that kingdom, are usually the workmanship of those persons who desire to raise their own characters of profound politicians; to restore new vigour to a crazy administration; to stifle or divert general discontents; to fill their coffers with forfeitures; and raise, or sink the opinion of public credit, as either shall best answer their private advantage. It is first agreed and settled among them, what suspected persons shall be accused of a plot; then, effectual care is taken to secure all their letters and papers, and put the owners in chains. These papers are delivered to a set of artists, very dexterous in finding out the mysterious meanings of words, syllables, and letters: for instance, they can discover a close stool, to signify a privy council; a flock of geese, a senate; a lame dog, an invader; the plague, a standing army; a buzzard, a prime minister; the gout, a high priest; a gibbet, a secretary of state; a chamber pot, a committee of grandees; a sieve, a court lady; a broom, a revolution; a mouse-trap, an employment; a bottomless pit, a treasury; a sink, a court; a cap and bells, a favourite; a broken reed, a court of justice; an empty tun, a general; a running sore, the administration.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

You shall sojourn at Paris, Rome, and Naples: at Florence, Venice, and Vienna: all the ground I have wandered over shall be re-trodden by you: wherever I stamped my hoof, your sylph's foot shall step also.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)