sojourner
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8.2
- noun
- /ˈsoʊdʒɜrnər/
- Formal
:
estudiante
- I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
- temporary sojourners
- sojourner mentality
Examples
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Without these English-speaking, cricket-playing sojourners, Dominican baseball never would have become the best in the Caribbean.
Academic text (1994) -
The three, leaning back in the ancient settees, observed the other sojourners, most of whom sat alone.
Fiction book (1993) -
Do they have more rights than a sojourner in the United States?
Academic text (2017) -
At present I am a sojourner of civilized life again.
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Have I ever experienced, among my fellow sojourners, that kind of love?
Blog text (26) -
For I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner.
Fiction book (1999) -
The Chinese immigrants typically demonstrated the sojourner mentality, one of longing for their native land and roots.
Academic text (1991) -
In the present study, we investigated relations between sojourners' acculturation attitudes and their adjustment to Israeli society.
Academic text (2000) -
In September 1847, having completed his experiment in simplicity, he became "a sojourner in civilized life again" and returned to Concord Village.
Academic text (1997) -
After spending a year abroad for work, she felt like a sojourner in her own country during her visit home.
Synonyms
11
7.0
A person who stays in a place only for a short time
1
8.0
A person who goes from place to place to find work
Antonyms
How Settled
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Morphology
Etymology
Sojourner comes from the old word sojourn, which once meant 'to stay for a day', and the 'day' idea appears in everyday words like diary. So a sojourner is someone who stays only for a short time, which is why the word means a person who lives somewhere temporarily.