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SOJOURNER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sojourner mean?
• SOJOURNER (noun)
The noun SOJOURNER has 1 sense:
1. a temporary resident
Familiarity information: SOJOURNER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A temporary resident
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("sojourner" is a kind of...):
occupant; occupier; resident (someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there)
Derivation:
sojourn (spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily)
Context examples
Shall I ever recall that street of Canterbury on a market-day, without recalling him, as he walked back with us; expressing, in the hardy roving manner he assumed, the unsettled habits of a temporary sojourner in the land; and looking at the bullocks, as they came by, with the eye of an Australian farmer!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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