stay-at-home

[ stey-uht-hohm ]

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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.

Origin of stay-at-home

First recorded in 1800–10

Words Nearby stay-at-home

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How to use stay-at-home in a sentence

At first, she seemed content to be an overachieving stay-at-home mom.
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Only 42 of these women had planned on being stay-at-home mothers in the first place.
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I never had to go through the should-I-stay-at-home conversation.
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Over Skype, wearing a blue button-down and Apple earbuds, he looks like any other stay-at-home dad in North Scottsdale.
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Or what if she is planning to adopt but her husband will be a stay-at-home dad?
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Doesn't it spur you on to feel how much we have to learn and how ignorant we are in our stay-at-home villages?
Round the Wonderful World | G. E. Mitton
Until he went to Tilliedrum Jamie had been more a stay-at-home boy than most.
A Window in Thrums | J. M. Barrie
You are the most stay-at-home person by way of a gentleman that I ever heard of.
An Old Man's Love | Anthony Trollope
But in stay-at-home families, though the evenings are pleasant, I think they are seldom ideal.
Girls and Women | Harriet E. Paine (AKA E. Chester}
A penny a day does not seem such an insufficient minimum wage to a traveler, as it does to a stay-at-home person.
Humanly Speaking | Samuel McChord Crothers

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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