Other forms: sojourns
A sojourn is a temporary stay in a place. A brief sojourn, during his sojourn abroad, a sojourn in the country.
It is formal and slightly literary, and what it adds to a stay is that the place was not home. The Latin behind it means to spend the day, which is the sense of passing time rather than settling.
1nounsojournA temporary stay in a place.
“During her sojourn in Rome, she wrote letters home every week.”
sojourn is a stay.
Vulgar Latin subdiurnare means to spend the day, from sub plus diurnum, a day.
Latin
sub- — under, a little over
Vulgar Latin
*subdiurnāre
Old French
sojor
Middle English
sojourne
English, today
sojourn
From Middle English sojourne and sojournen, from Old French sojor, sojorner (modern séjour, séjourner), from (assumed) Vulgar Latin subdiurnāre, from Latin sub- (“under, a little over”) + Latin diurnus (“lasting for a day”), from Latin dies (“day”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA