• (RP) IPA: /ˈsɒdʒɜːn/, /ˈsɒdʒən/, /ˈsəʊdʒɜːn/
• (America) IPA: /ˈsoʊdʒɚn/

sojourn (plural sojourns)

1. A short stay somewhere.
   • 2006, Joseph Price Remington, Paul Beringer, Remington: The Science And Practice Of Pharmacy (page 1168)

     The use of vasoconstrictors to increase the sojourn of local anesthetics at the site of infiltration continues […]

2. A temporary residence.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 3”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     Though long detain'd / In that obscure sojourn

• abode#Noun

• French: séjour
• German: Aufenthalt
• Italian: soggiorno
• Portuguese: estadia
• Russian: временное пребывание (vrémennoje prebyvánije) n, пребыва́ние
• Spanish: estadía, estada

• German: Unterkunft, Obdach, Übernachtungsmöglichkeit

sojourn (sojourns, present participle sojourning; past and past participle sojourned)

1. (intransitive) To reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Genesis 12:30 ↗:

     Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.

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

• stay over, stop; See also Thesaurus:sojourn

• French: séjourner
• German: sich aufhalten, verweilen, weilen, residieren
• Italian: soggiornare
• Portuguese: peregrinar, estanciar
• Russian: временно пребывать

• sojourner