What does sojourn mean?
Sojourn means A short stay somewhere..
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/ˈsɒd͡ʒən/ · noun
A short stay somewhere..
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.
But if, as we have seen, Wu's ambivalent attitude toward the conventional route to success originated in his early appreciation of the idealistic virtues of his father, then it is possible that parts of the work could have been written much earlier, perhaps even during his sojourn with his father in Chiang-su.
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
Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.
The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, […] and here sojourned three days.
Use sojourn when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sojourn means A short stay somewhere..
Common synonyms include abode, stay over, stop, keep.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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