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noun a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest)
verb spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily
originFrom Middle English sojourne (noun) and sojournen (verb), from Old French sojor, sojorner (modern séjour, séjourner), from (assumed) Vulgar Latin *subdiurnāre, from Latin sub- (“under, a little over”) + Late Latin diurnus (“lasting for a day”), from Latin dies (“day”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0