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home-sat

home-sat is the simple past and past participle of home-sit.

Meaning of home-sit

Verb

home-sit (third-person singular simple present home-sits, present participle home-sitting, simple past and past participle home-sat)

  1. Synonym of house-sit.
    • Hazel Freed and her cousin Susan Klayman call themselves Housewives Who Home-Sit. For several years they have been “home-sitting” for vacationing relatives and friends. Last May they began operating professionally and in partnership.1978 January 17, “A 5-year-old service: She’ll mind the cats but not the dogs”, in The Toronto Star, four star edition, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page C1, column 5
    Synonyms:
    house-sit

Questions about home-sat

What is home-sat the simple past and past participle of?
Home-sat is the simple past and past participle of home-sit.

Words near home-sat in the dictionary

  1. home-harvest
  2. home-killed
  3. home-made
  4. home-making
  5. home-port
  6. home-sat
  7. home-school
  8. home-schooled
  9. home-schooler
  10. home-schoolers
  11. home-schooling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: home-sat (page history and authors); home-sit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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