Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who sojourns; a temporary resident; a stranger or traveler who dwells in a place for a time.
- n. A guest; a visitor.
Wiktionary
- n. a person who resides temporarily in a place
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who sojourns.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a temporary resident
Examples
“Stopping only long enough to buy a newspaper, this sojourner is no more of a tourist than most of us.”
“The appointing of men of his own to guard the sojourner is a tacit admission to the effect that serious, danger really threatened.”
“Madonna's commitment to Malawian orphans meant she could "not be described as a sojourner", he added.”
“The "sojourner," as we translate for want of a better term”
“The ger, "sojourner," is one whose stay in certain territory is only temporary.”
“Madonna was no "sojourner" in Malawi, where she had demonstrated her commitment to the welfare of the country's more than one million orphans through her Raising Malawi charity, they pointed out.”
“sojourner" and accused him of presuming to judge their behavior.”
“He could only be called a 'sojourner' there, for truth could not abide in that place long as a permanent resident. ”
“That film's protagonist, George Bailey, is an American with a mighty wanderlust, not all that different from Sal Paradise, the archetypical American sojourner in On the Road.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Sigman: Brooks Pits 'Connection' vs. 'Adventure,' But Why Not Both?
“The supple south-sojourner, silken of smile and lazy of gesture, waits, and does his work from behind, when no man looketh, gracefully and without offence.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘sojourner’.
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1076 more...
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ecbrenner's list
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aliko's Words
deli, turkey, bodrum, deniz, sunny, seks, tatil, hava, zeeman, captain, kapitein, kaptan and 256 more...
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ginnylev's Words
neuroplasticity, repudiate, scintilla, ruminate, tautology, ombudsman, exigent, filibuster, grace, ambidextrous, amends, disclosure and 623 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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frequent toefl
Words that I do not know or unsure for toefl
appurtenances, aptitude, arbitrary, arboretum, argot, arrears, avocation, avuncular, badger, bait, warden, bane and 428 more...
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"Words, words, words."
abase, abject, abstruse, adjutant, altercation, altruistic, angst, anodyne, anomie, ape, apprehensive, aquiline and 310 more...
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Jword's Words
superfluous, sojourner, exogamy, jeremiad, epistemological, elucidation, consummately, diabolical, draconian, apotheosized, elide, elysian and 70 more...
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trailingedge's list
Word Depository 08
protolithic, posteriority, squamiform, guillotinings, intransigence, proprioception, undiminished, ungulates, eutrophication, ramblingly, sojourner, blissful ignorance and 26 more...
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word set7
brownie wings, apostasy, agents provocateurs, de rigueur, epiphenomenonal, gregorian calendar, morganatic, geomagnetic storm, syncopated, oppositionist, civil twilight, topologically and 75 more...
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Pierre's Words
zygophyllaceous, sylvan, raiment, phantasmagoria, schadenfreude, antediluvian, sojourner, cerulean, dysphoria, orthogonal, frenetic, cerulean and 4 more...
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ScholarWords
disquisition, treatise, purvey, tangentially, stare decisis, cricket, semiotics, originative, morass, pot-au-feu, verstehen, enigmatical and 84 more...
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sed libera nos a malo
One of the last vestiges of my Catholic upbringing is my interest in and love for language that pertains to it.
psalm, breviary, ecclesiastical, absolve, stigmata, catechumen, hymn, chorister, plainsong, litany, benediction, cloistered and 59 more...
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ofravens for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. (Psalm 38) Apr 8, 2008