dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/soj_MW.json

{
  "sojourn":{
    "antonyms":[
      "crash",
      "stay",
      "tarry",
      "visit"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a temporary stay":[
        "a sojourn in the country"
      ],
      ": to stay as a temporary resident : stop":[
        "sojourned for a month at a resort"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "The visit with my father was preceded by a sojourn with my sister, Joy\u2014an artistic type and sometime vegan who plays the part of patient vegetarian whenever her unrepentantly carnivorous brother drops in\u2014and her husband, who were kind enough to pick me up at Heathrow. \u2014 John Haney , Gourmet , January 2003",
      "On a recent sojourn in Sicily, I frequently found myself remembering that page in the children's encyclopedia, because it seemed to me that what I was seeing was as close as I will ever come to the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. \u2014 Francine Prose , Atlantic , December 2002",
      "My mother is Venezuelan, and every year during my childhood we spent a two-month sojourn with her family there. \u2014 Alexandra Starr , New Republic , 20 May 2002",
      "Our family enjoyed a two-week sojourn in the mountains.",
      "spent a relaxing sojourn in her friend's summer home",
      "Verb",
      "'Am I hideous, Jane",
      "\u2026 there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane, who sojourned , or, as he expressed it, \"tarried,\" in Sleepy Hollow, for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity. \u2014 Washington Irving , The Legend of Sleep Hollow , 1820",
      "began their retirement by leisurely sojourning with friends and relatives scattered across the country",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Even before her Mexican sojourn , Ms. McChesney was an accomplished artist, with several first-place prizes in statewide art competitions. \u2014 New York Times , 28 June 2022",
      "The final destination in our sojourn was Soprano\u2019s Casino by the Sea in Falmouth Heights, one of the newest additions to the Cape waterfront scene. \u2014 Rob Duca, BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2022",
      "Biden, nearly 16 months into his tenure, is just now making his first sojourn to the region. \u2014 Noah Biermanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 19 May 2022",
      "Surface mapping is only one of the spacecraft\u2019s tasks for its 1.5-year sojourn near the asteroid; pinning down the object\u2019s orbital motion to meter-scale precision is another important goal. \u2014 Jonathan O'callaghan, Scientific American , 5 May 2022",
      "Kumoyo Island includes traces of the funk the band learned on their sojourn to Lisbon, particularly with hints of horns and touches of bells and melodic percussion from the multi-instrumentalist Katsurada. \u2014 Hunter Walker, Rolling Stone , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "Succulent air plants hang in glass tubes above, as if transplanted from a Joshua Tree sojourn . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
      "There are parallel storylines in Hawkins, California, Russia, the Upside Down \u2014 and a sojourn to Utah. \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 25 May 2022",
      "Harper is looking to escape her life for two weeks with a sojourn to the country. \u2014 K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone , 20 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "The Red Wings sojourn through the Great White North, this time facing the Oilers. \u2014 Andrew Hammond, Detroit Free Press , 16 Mar. 2022",
      "Organizer Bob Hannaford said the swingers sojourn in New Orleans was initially scheduled for the summer but was postponed because of the pandemic. \u2014 Matt Sledge, NOLA.com , 13 Nov. 2020",
      "The safest way to sojourn into the haunted, creepy and macabre, especially during a pandemic, is never to leave home. \u2014 Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal , 27 Oct. 2020",
      "For two weeks in August each year, the family would sojourn to the Atlantic Coast for a vacation, first at Ocean City and later at Bethany Beach and elsewhere. \u2014 Jacob Wallace, Washington Post , 22 May 2020",
      "To the city folk who sojourn there, West Marin is an agrarian idyll. \u2014 Leilani Marie Labong, SFChronicle.com , 21 May 2020",
      "The author Richard Bach and the puppeteer Jim Henson sojourned to meet Ms. Roberts. \u2014 Sam Kestenbaum, New York Times , 29 Oct. 2019",
      "After sojourning in season 1-land in the season 8 premiere, Arrow is heading to another familiar location from its past. \u2014 Chancellor Agard, EW.com , 21 Oct. 2019",
      "Along the rugged coastline of southern Greece, our ancient human relatives may have sojourned in what was once a balmy refuge from the encroaching glaciers of the mid-Pleistocene. \u2014 Maya Wei-haas, National Geographic , 10 July 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "13th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English sojorn , from Anglo-French sujur, sujurn , from sujurner \u2014 see sojourn entry 2":"Noun",
      "Middle English, from Anglo-French sujurner, sejurner , from Vulgar Latin *subdiurnare , from Latin sub under, during + Late Latin diurnum day \u2014 more at up , journey":"Verb"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u014d-\u02c8j\u0259rn",
      "\u02c8s\u014d-\u02ccj\u0259rn"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "stay",
      "tarry",
      "visit"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-075347",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "soja":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": soybean":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022fi(y)\u0259",
      "\u02c8s\u014dy\u0259",
      "dialectal \u02c8s\u014dj\u0113 or -\u014dji or -\u014dd\u0259 or -\u014dd\u0113 or -\u014ddi or -\u014d\u0259",
      "like 1 soja",
      "\u02c8s\u022fy\u0259",
      "\u02c8s\u014dj\u0259"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Dutch soja":"Noun",
      "New Latin, from Dutch, soybean":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-115009"
  }
}