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- Dictionarysojourn/ˈsɒdʒən/
noun
- 1. a temporary stay: "her sojourn in Rome"
verb
- 1. stay somewhere temporarily: "she had sojourned once in Egypt"
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SOJOURN definition: 1. a short period when a person stays in a particular place: 2. to spend a short period staying in…. Learn more.
: to stay as a temporary resident : stop. sojourned for a month at a resort. sojourner noun. Synonyms. Noun. stay. tarry. visit. Verb. crash [ slang] stay. tarry. visit. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of sojourn in a Sentence.
a short period when a person stays in a particular place: My sojourn in the youth hostel was thankfully short. After a brief sojourn in Holland to study Sanskrit, he moved to India. Synonyms. stay (VISIT) visit. Fewer examples. We had been planning this little sojourn for several months. He took his annual summer sojourn with his cousin Catherine.
A sojourn is a short stay or visit. If you want a fancy way to say that you took a trip to the countryside, you might talk about your country sojourn.
to live somewhere temporarily, as on a visit; stay for a while. noun. 2. a brief or temporary stay; visit.
Definition of sojourn verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Sojourn definition: a temporary stay. See examples of SOJOURN used in a sentence.
so·journ. (sō′jûrn′, sō-jûrn′) intr.v. so·journed, so·journ·ing, so·journs. To reside temporarily: "His family had sojourned in New Jersey for one year only, and had then gone back to Michigan" (Jane Smiley). n. A temporary stay; a brief period of residence.
5 days ago · sojourn (third-person singular simple present sojourns, present participle sojourning, simple past and past participle sojourned) ( intransitive) To reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger .
A sojourn is a short stay in a place that is not your home. [literary] [...] More. Pronunciations of 'sojourn' American English: soʊdʒɜrn British English: sɒdʒɜːʳn , US soʊdʒ- More. Conjugations of 'sojourn' present simple: I sojourn, you sojourn [...] past simple: I sojourned, you sojourned [...] past participle: sojourned. More.
