different between sojourn vs mansion

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French sojor, sojorner (modern séjour, séjourner), from (assumed) Vulgar Latin *subdiurn?re, from Latin sub- (“under, a little over”) + Late Latin diurnus (“lasting for a day”), from Latin dies (“day”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?d???n/, /?s?d??n/, /?s??d???n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?so?d??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n

Noun

sojourn (plural sojourns)

1. 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 […]

2. A temporary residence.

Synonyms

• abode

Translations

Verb

sojourn (third-person singular simple present sojourns, present participle sojourning, simple past and past participle sojourned)

1. (intransitive) To reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger.

   • Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.

   • 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward VI

     The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, […] and here sojourned three days.

Synonyms

• stay over, stop; See also Thesaurus:sojourn

Translations

Related terms

• sojourner
• sojourney

References

Anagrams

• journos

English

Alternative forms

• mansioun (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English mansioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mansion, mansiun, from Latin mansi? (“dwelling, stopping-place”), from the past participle stem of man?re (“stay”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæn(t)??n/

Noun

mansion (plural mansions)

2. A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
3. (Britain) A luxurious flat (apartment).
4. (obsolete) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
5. (obsolete) A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
6. (historical) An astrological house; a station of the moon.
   • 1387-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales

     Which book spak muchel of the operaciouns / Touchynge the eighte and twenty mansiouns / That longen to the moone

7. (Chinese astronomy) One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
8. (chiefly in the plural) An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)
   • 1611, Bible, Authorized (King James) Version, John XIV.2:

     In my Father's house are many mansions [transl. ????? (monaì)]: if it were not so, I would have told you.

   • 1667, John Denham, On Mr Abraham Cowley, his Death, and Burial amongst the Ancient Poets

     These poets near our princes sleep, / And in one grave their mansion keep.

   • 2003, The Economist, (subtitle), 18 Dec 2003:

     The many mansions in one east London house of God.

9. Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

Derived terms

• mansionette
• mansionry
• McMansion

Related terms

Descendants

• Japanese: ????? (manshon) (borrowed)

Translations

Anagrams

• Manions, Minoans, amnions, onanism

Middle English

Noun

mansion

1. Alternative form of mansioun