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Word of the Day – Sojourn

By May 1, 2025Word of the Day

Sojourn (noun)

so-jern

A temporary stay.

First recorded in 1200–50; Middle English verb sojurnen, Old French sojorner “to rest, stay,” from unattested Vulgar Latin subdiurnāre “to stay for a time,” a compound of the preposition and prefix sub, sub-, here meaning “a little, for a while” and the Latin verb diurnāre “to live for a long time,” a derivative of the Latin adjective diurnus “belonging to the daytime, occurring every day”; noun derivative of the verb; journey

Example sentences

“We loved our sojourn to Paris, it’s the first time it’s just been us since the kids were born.”

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