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Voyage vs Sojourn - What's the difference?

voyage | sojourn |

As verbs the difference between voyage and sojourn

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

As a noun sojourn is

a short stay somewhere.

voyage

English

(wikipedia voyage)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A long journey, especially by ship.
  • * J. Fletcher
    • I love a sea voyage and a blustering tempest.
  • * Shakespeare
    • All the voyage of their life / Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
  • (obsolete) The act or practice of travelling.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Nations have interknowledge of one another by voyage into foreign parts, or strangers that come to them.

    Synonyms

    * adventure * exploration * expedition * excursion * journey * tour * vacation

    Related terms

    * envoy

    Derived terms

    * maiden voyage

    Verb

    (voyag)
  • To go on a long journey.
  • * Wordsworth
    • A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.
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    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

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