sojourn
nounEtymology
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”).
Definitions
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[…]
A temporary residence.
- Though long detain'd / In that obscure sojourn
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
- synonymabode
Derived
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.
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