Synonyms: stay(1), remain, wait, abide, tarry1, linger, sojourn

These verbs mean to continue to be in a given place. 

• Stay is the least specific, though it can also suggest that the person involved is a guest or visitor:
  .... "Must you go? Can't you stay?" Charles J. Vaughan. 
• Remain often implies continuing or being left after others have gone:
  .... I remained at the end of the meeting to talk to the speaker.  
• Wait suggests remaining in readiness, anticipation, or expectation:
  .... "Your father is waiting for me to take a walk with him" Booth Tarkington.
• Abide implies continuing for a lengthy period:
  .... "Abide with me" Henry Francis Lyte. 
• Tarry and linger both imply a delayed departure, but linger more strongly suggests reluctance to leave:
  .... "She was not anxious but puzzled that her husband tarried" Eden Phillpotts.
  .... "I alone sit lingering here" Henry Vaughan. 
• To sojourn is to reside temporarily in a place:
  .... "He was sojourning at [a] hotel in Bond Street" Anthony Trollope

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