英语词汇“empty-nester”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

　

单词	empty-nester
释义	empty-nester in British English noun informal a married person whose children have grown up and left home empty nester in American English US a person whose children have grown up and left home empty nester in American English noun a parent whose child or children have reached adulthood and moved away from home Word origin [empty nest + -er1]-er is a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupationor labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance(six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner) Examples of 'empty-nester' in a sentence empty-nester The average empty-nester skipped two breakfasts, two lunches and an evening meal a week. The Sun (2015) The silver lining is the prospect of being an empty-nester. Times, Sunday Times (2017) In turn, many empty-nester homes need to be restyled to attract new owners. Times, Sunday Times (2013) If the traditional image of the empty-nester is dowdy, sad and purposeless, she could not be further from it. Times, Sunday Times (2010) This is thanks to the adaptable broken-plan layout she designed to solve the occupational hazard of the empty-nester. Times, Sunday Times (2017) Then there are the downsizers — empty-nester couples looking to trade in their four- or five-bedroom family home for something smaller. Times, Sunday Times (2013)
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