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# sojourn

«sojourn» in Mova's school dictionary: **a short stay in a place that is not your home (formal)** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a sojourn, sojourns); verb (sojourn, sojourns, sojourned, sojourning — formal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A sojourn is a short stay in a place that is not your home (formal). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sojourn/#m1)

2) To sojourn is to stay somewhere for a while as a visitor (formal, old-fashioned). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sojourn/#m2)

3) (Bible) In the Bible, to sojourn is to live in a land as a stranger or traveller, as Abraham did. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sojourn/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

You meet «sojourn» in travel writing, older books, Bible readings and exam texts; in everyday talk people say «stay» or «visit». It tells the reader that the stay was temporary. Phrases: a brief sojourn, a sojourn in the country.

### examples

- After a short sojourn in Scotland, they came home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sojourn/#x1)
- The writer spent a sojourn by the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sojourn/#x2)
- Our sojourn at Gran's farm lasted a week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sojourn/#x3)
- The explorers sojourned in the desert for several days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sojourn/#x4)
- Christians read that Abraham sojourned in a strange land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sojourn/#x5)
- During his sojourn abroad he learned French. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sojourn/#x6)
- They told that they, in crossing Hungary, had sojourned in a mountainous country called Transylvania, where the inhabitants only spoke German, while all around them nothing was spoken but Hungarian. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sojourn/#x7)

### note

It is a formal word; in normal speech say «stay». Pronounced SOJ-urn (or SO-jurn). Countable noun: a sojourn, sojourns. A sojourn is always temporary, not a move for ever.

### In the corpora

- [And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.521/)
- [And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.575/)
- [And Jacob came unto Isaac his father to Mamre, to Kiriatharba — the same is Hebron — where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1117/)
- [One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.360/)
- [And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.575/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sojourn» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sojourn/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.