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[ stey-uht-hohm ] / ˈsteɪ ətˌhoʊm / SEE SYNONYMS FOR stay-at-home ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivenot 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. nouna person who stays at home a good deal; a person not inclined to travel; homebody. Origin of stay-at-homeFirst recorded in 1800–10 Words nearby stay-at-homestavesacre, Stavropol, stavudine, staw, stay, stay-at-home, staybolt, staycation, stayer, staying power, stay-in strike Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for stay-at-homeOver 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
adjective(of a person) enjoying a quiet, settled, and unadventurous use of leisure nouna stay-at-home person a person who does not bother to vote in a political election Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to stay-at-homeprivate, pet, home, calm, family, devoted, homely, sedentary, settled, subdued, submissive, tame, trained, tranquil, domiciliary, homelike, indoor |