Lexic.us

Definition of Sojourn

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

Definition of Sojourn

1. v. i. 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.

2. n. A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land.

Definition of Sojourn

1. Noun. A short stay somewhere. ¹

2. Noun. A temporary residence. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) To reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sojourn

1. to stay temporarily [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sojourn

Literary usage of Sojourn

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"17: 8. which sojourn among you, 19:33. if a stranger sojourn with thue Nu. ... This one (fellow) came in to sojourn, 47: 4. For to sojourn in the land ..."

2. Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells (1910)
"Vili THE SUMMER sojourn OF FLORINDO AND LINDURA AT the moment of this writing, ... Their acquaintance with either form of sojourn, if not exhaustive, ..."

3. The Word by Harold Waldwin Percival (1917)
"THE sojourn OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN EGYPT By Orlando P. Schmidt TJIE erroneous and conflicting notions regarding the "sojourn of the Children of Israel ..."

4. The Heroes and Crises of Early Hebrew History from the Creation to the Death by Charles Foster Kent (1908)
"The Effects of the Egyptian sojourn. In addition to their rapid and important increase in numbers, the Hebrews clearly profited in many ways by their ..."

5. The Heroes and Crises of Early Hebrew History: From the Creation to the by Charles Foster Kent (1908)
"The Effects of the Egyptian sojourn. In addition to their rapid and important increase in numbers, the Hebrews clearly profited in many ways by their ..."

6. Hunger by Knut Hamsun (1920)
"... about and starved in Christiania: Christiania, this singular city, from which no man departs without carrying away the traces of his sojourn there. ..."

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