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so⋅journ

  [n. soh-jurn; v. soh-jurn, soh-jurn]
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–noun
1. a temporary stay: during his sojourn in Paris.
–verb (used without object)
2. to stay for a time in a place; live temporarily: to sojourn on the Riviera for two months.
Origin:
1200–50; (v.) ME sojurnen < OF sojorner to rest, stay < VL *subdiurnāre, equiv. to L sub- sub- + diurn(us) of a day + -āre inf. suffix; (n.) ME sojurne < OF sojorn, deriv. of the v.; see journey

Related forms:
so⋅journ⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
2. visit, vacation, rest, stop.
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so·journ   (sō'jûrn', sō-jûrn')   
intr.v.   so·journed, so·journ·ing, so·journs
To reside temporarily. See Synonyms at stay1.
n.  A temporary stay; a brief period of residence.

[Middle English sojournen, from Old French sojorner, from Vulgar Latin *subdiurnāre : Latin sub-, sub- + Late Latin diurnum, day (from Latin, daily ration, from neuter of diurnus, daily, from diēs, day; see dyeu- in Indo-European roots).]
so'journ'er n.
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Sojourn

So"journ\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sojourned; p. pr. & vb. n. Sojourning.] [OE. sojornen, sojournen, OF. sojorner, sejorner, F. s['e]journer, fr. L. sub under, about + diurnus belonging to the day. See Journal, Diurnal.] 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.

Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there. --Gen. xii. 30.

Home he goeth, he might not longer sojourn. --Chaucer.

The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned three days. --Hayward.

Sojourn

So"journ\, n. [Cf. OF. sujurn, sujur, sejor, F. s['e]jour. See Sojourn, v. i.] A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land.

Though long detained In that obscure sojourn. --Milton.
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sojourn 
c.1290, from O.Fr. sojorner "stay or dwell for a time," from V.L. *subdiurnare "to spend the day," from L. sub- "under, until" + diurnus "of a day," from diurnum "day" (see diurnal). Fr. séjourner formed via vowel dissimilation.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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