Sojourn vs Mansion - What's the difference?
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A short stay somewhere.
* 2006 , Joseph Price Remington, Paul Beringer, Remington: The Science And Practice Of Pharmacy (page 1168)
A temporary residence.
To reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger.
* Bible, Genesis xii. 30
* Hayward
(senseid) A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
(UK) A luxurious flat (apartment).
(obsolete) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
(obsolete) A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
(historical) An astrological house; a station of the moon.
* Late 14th century: Which book spak muchel of the operaciouns / Touchynge the eighte and twenty mansiouns / That longen to the moone — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
(Chinese astronomy) One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)
* 1611 , Bible , Authorized (King James) Version, John XIV.2:
* Denham
* 2003 , The Economist , (subtitle), 18 Dec 2003:
Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.
Sojourn is a related term of mansion.
As nouns the difference between sojourn and mansion
is that sojourn is a short stay somewhere while mansion is estate.As a verb sojourn
is to reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger.sojourn
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Noun
(en noun)- The use of vasoconstrictors to increase the sojourn of local anesthetics at the site of infiltration continues
- Though long detained / In that obscure sojourn . — Milton.
Verb
- Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.
- 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.References
Anagrams
*mansion
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Alternative forms
* mansioun (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- In my Father's house are many mansions : if it were not so, I would have told you.
- These poets near our princes sleep, / And in one grave their mansions keep.
- The many mansions in one east London house of God.