Sojourner (Noun)
Meaning
A temporary resident.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- She stayed as a sojourner in the village for several months, enjoying the simplicity of rural life.
- After finishing college, he lived as a sojourner in a friend's basement, working multiple jobs to pay off debt.
- During the peak travel season, many hotels in the area catered specifically to the needs of short-term sojourners.
- In an era when immigrants frequently had limited economic prospects, temporary housing programs became lifelines for foreign-born sojourners.
- Those foreign-born musicians chose Paris as the location of their self-imposed sojourners exile due to restrictions placed upon artistic expressions by authoritarian regime of the new Empire back in Germany