sojourn

noun
/ˈsɒd͡ʒən/UK/ˈsoʊd͡ʒɚn/US

Etymology

From Middle English sojourne (noun) and sojournen (verb), from Old French sojor, sojorner (modern séjour, séjourner), from (assumed) Vulgar Latin *subdiurnāre, from Latin sub- (“under, a little over”) + Late Latin diurnus (“lasting for a day”), from Latin dies (“day”).

  1. derived from dies
  2. derived from diurnus
  3. derived from sub-
  4. derived from *subdiurnāre
  5. derived from sojor
  6. inherited from sojourne

Definitions

  1. A short stay somewhere.

    • Better the dark, silent, and fated waves of ocean, than the troubled waves of life. There are some whose sojourn on this earth is brief as it is bitter.
    • The use of vasoconstrictors to increase the sojourn of local anesthetics at the site of infiltration continues[…]
  2. A temporary residence.

    • Though long detain'd / In that obscure sojourn
  3. To reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger.

    • Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.
    • The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, […] and here sojourned three days.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sojourn. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01sojourn02lodger03lodges04lodge05cabin06live07inhabit08reside09abode

A definitional loop anchored at sojourn. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at sojourn

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA