stay-at-home

[ stey-uht-hohm ]

adjective

1. not inclined to travel or seek diversions or pastimes outside one's residence, area, or country.
2. of or relating to time spent at home:

   a stay-at-home evening.

noun

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

stay-at-home

adjective

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

noun

1. a stay-at-home person
2. a person who does not bother to vote in a political election

Word History and Origins

Origin of stay-at-home¹

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

At first, she seemed content to be an overachieving stay-at-home mom.

From The Daily Beast

Only 42 of these women had planned on being stay-at-home mothers in the first place.

From The Daily Beast

I never had to go through the should-I-stay-at-home conversation.

From The Daily Beast

Over Skype, wearing a blue button-down and Apple earbuds, he looks like any other stay-at-home dad in North Scottsdale.

From The Daily Beast

Or what if she is planning to adopt but her husband will be a stay-at-home dad?

From The Daily Beast

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?

From Project Gutenberg

Until he went to Tilliedrum Jamie had been more a stay-at-home boy than most.

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You are the most stay-at-home person by way of a gentleman that I ever heard of.

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But in stay-at-home families, though the evenings are pleasant, I think they are seldom ideal.

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A penny a day does not seem such an insufficient minimum wage to a traveler, as it does to a stay-at-home person.

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