Sojourn

Definition of Sojourn

So´journ

v. i.	1.	To dwell for a time; to dwell or live in a place as a temporary resident or as a stranger, not considering the place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry. [imp. & p. p. Sojourned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sojourning.] Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there. - Gen. xii. 30. Home he goeth, he might not longer sojourn. - Chaucer. The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned three days. - Hayward.
n.	1.	A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land. Though long detained In that obscure sojourn. - Milton.

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