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sojourn

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"Temporary stay"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈsɒd͡ʒən/Part of speech noun, verbSorted jnoorsuStarts with SEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

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

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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[…]
  • Though long detain'd / In that obscure sojourn

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