sojourn
[ noun soh-jurn; verb soh-jurn, soh-jurn ]
/ noun ˈsoʊ dʒɜrn; verb ˈsoʊ dʒɜrn, soʊˈdʒɜrn /
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noun
a temporary stay: during his sojourn in Paris.
verb (used without object)
to stay for a time in a place; live temporarily: to sojourn on the Riviera for two months.
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Origin of sojourn
First recorded in 1200–50; Middle English verb sojurnen, Old French sojorner “to rest, stay,” from unattested Vulgar Latin subdiurnāre “to stay for a time,” a compound of the preposition and prefix sub, sub-, here meaning “a little, for a while” and the Latin verb diurnāre “to live for a long time,” a derivative of the Latin adjective diurnus “belonging to the daytime, occurring every day”; noun derivative of the verb; see journey
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British Dictionary definitions for sojourn
sojourn
/ (ˈsɒdʒɜːn, ˈsʌdʒ-) /
noun
a temporary stay
verb
(intr) to stay or reside temporarily
Derived forms of sojourn
sojourner, nounWord Origin for sojourn
C13: from Old French sojorner, from Vulgar Latin subdiurnāre (unattested) to spend a day, from Latin sub- during + Late Latin diurnum day
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