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Sojourn vs Adjourn - What's the difference?

sojourn | adjourn |

In lang=en terms the difference between sojourn and adjourn

is that sojourn is to reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger while adjourn is to end or suspend an event.

As verbs the difference between sojourn and adjourn

is that sojourn is to reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger while adjourn is to postpone.

As a noun sojourn

is a short stay somewhere.

sojourn

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A short stay somewhere.
  • * 2006 , Joseph Price Remington, Paul Beringer, Remington: The Science And Practice Of Pharmacy (page 1168)
    • The use of vasoconstrictors to increase the sojourn of local anesthetics at the site of infiltration continues
  • A temporary residence.
    • Though long detained / In that obscure sojourn . — Milton.

    Verb

  • To reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger.
  • * Bible, Genesis xii. 30
    • Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.
  • * Hayward
    • The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned three days.

    Conjugation

    * The archaic third-person singular present active indicative form sojourneth is also attested.

    Related terms

    * sojourner

    References

    Anagrams

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    adjourn

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To postpone.
    • The trial was adjourned for a week.
  • To defer; to put off temporarily or indefinitely.
  • * Barrow
    • It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time.
  • To end or suspend an event.
    • The court will adjourn for lunch.
  • (intransitive, formal, uncommon) To move from one place to another.
    • After the dinner, we will adjourn to the bar.

    See also

    * adjournment