formalSHORT TIME a short period of time that you stay in a place that is not your home 逗留,暂住SYN stay
a brief sojourn in Europe
在欧洲小住
—sojourn verb [intransitiveI]
Examples from the Corpus
sojourn• The morning after, Jim Bobbears the scars of a sojourn in the moshpit.• Their backgroundknowledge of an institution is typically and corporately small, and sojourn within its walls brief.• The film is about only a very brief sojourn in Gauguin's otherwise racybiography.
Originsojourn
(1200-1300)Old Frenchsojorn, from sojorner“to stay”, from Vulgar Latinsubdiurnare, from Latinsub“during” + Late Latindiurnum“day”