stay-at-home

[ stey-uh t-hohm ]

/ ˈsteɪ ətˌhoʊm /

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adjective

not inclined to travel or seek diversions or pastimes outside one's residence, area, or country.

of or relating to time spent at home: a stay-at-home evening.

noun

a person who stays at home a good deal; a person not inclined to travel; homebody.

Words nearby stay-at-home

stay over, stay put, stay stitching, stay the course, stay with, stay-at-home, stay-in strike, stay-press, staybolt, staycation, stayer

Origin of stay-at-home

First recorded in 1800–10

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Examples from the Web for stay-at-home

Over Skype, wearing a blue button-down and Apple earbuds, he looks like any other stay-at-home dad in North Scottsdale.
My $295 Skype Exorcism|Scott Bixby|February 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Or what if she is planning to adopt but her husband will be a stay-at-home dad?
Are Anti-Discrimination Laws Working Against Millennial Women?|Keli Goff|January 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He said: “The people did not respond to the stay-at-home to the extent to which we expected them to do.”
Mandela, My Source: One Journalist’s Memory of Clandestine Meetings|Benjamin Pogrund|December 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST
And in the 2010 comedy Grown Ups, Chris Rock plays a stay-at-home father who is mercilessly emasculated by his own mother-in-law.
Pop Culture’s House Husbands Lag Behind the Reality in American Homes|Soraya Roberts|June 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST

The few progressive on-screen depictions of stay-at-home papas have not ended well.
Pop Culture’s House Husbands Lag Behind the Reality in American Homes|Soraya Roberts|June 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Stay-at-home as I was, why trouble myself with strange lands until necessary?
The Joys of Being a Woman|Winifred Kirkland
The stay-at-home, however, had news; news he was impatient to tell.
South from Hudson Bay|E. C. [Ethel Claire] Brill
Until he went to Tilliedrum Jamie had been more a stay-at-home boy than most.
A Window in Thrums|J. M. Barrie
We are quite different from what you stay-at-home women fancy.
The Gorgeous Girl|Nalbro Bartley
But the Lycosa is a stay-at-home animal; I do not see her straying abroad during the summer.
More Hunting Wasps|J. Henri Fabre

British Dictionary definitions for stay-at-home

stay-at-home

adjective

(of a person) enjoying a quiet, settled, and unadventurous use of leisure

noun

a stay-at-home person

a person who does not bother to vote in a political election

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stay-at-home

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