stay-at-home
stay-at-home adjective: of a parent: not employed and rather devoting more time to one's children.
Adjective
stay-at-home (not comparable)
- Of a parent: not employed and rather devoting more time to one's children.
- stay-at-home dad
- Ms. Andrews is forthright about her distress. “Jonathan’s eating habits have irritated me for years anyway and have only been exacerbated during the last six or seven weeks of him working from home,” said Ms. Andrews, 53, a stay-at-home parent who lives just outside London, in Surrey.2020 May 25, Abby Ellin, “Couples Who Eat Together May Not Stay Together”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2020
- Of rules or regulations: forbidding the populace to leave their domicile except under emergency or other special circumstances, especially for purposes of quarantine.
- stay-at-home orders
- In April Jenny Rappaport sat down to inspect her calendar because she could not tell how many days had passed since New Jersey’s stay-at-home order took effect.2020 May 27, Jackie Rocheleau, “A Monday Is a Tuesday Is a Sunday as COVID-19 Disrupts Internal Clocks”, in Scientific American, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2020
- Of or relating to quarantine in the home.
- the stay-at-home era
- stay-at-home boredom
- Not ever travelling or moving far from home.
- He was a seaman, but he was a wanderer too, while most seamen lead, if one may so express it, a sedentary life. Their minds are of the stay-at-home order, and their home is always with them—the ship; and so is their country—the sea.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 195...
- Playing very defensively; not leaving the defensive zone early.
Noun
stay-at-home (plural stay-at-homes)
- A person or animal that prefers to stay at home rather than socialize or travel.
- I had a fancy to go there [Archangel in Russia]. Now my fancy has been gratified, and there is yet another place written down in the charts of my experience. And it is always a little saddening to exchange a dream for a reality—once also the Caucasus was a name crowded with boundless possibility...1911 August 20, Stephen Graham, “The White Night. Impressions of the Far North in Russia. From St. James’s Gazette.”, in The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif., →ISSN, section “A Riverside Inn”...
- Some animals are stay-at-homes, and some are travelers and migrate. Tommy, who finds this out, is a little like both.1960, “[Friskey, Margaret.] Trip for Tommy. Children’s Press, 1953. $1.50.”, in Frieda M[aurie] Heller, compiler, “I Can Read it Myself!”: Some Books for Independent Reading in the Primary Grades...
- Synonyms:
- homebody
- A parent who is not employed and rather devoting more time to children.
- We [women], I guess, got into the habit of being stay-at-homes while our children were small because you’re not there during the day with them, you tend to spend your evenings and weekends [with them] […]1990, Ruth Carter, Gill Kirkup, quoting Meg, “[Private lives] Children and childcare”, in Jo Campling, editor, Women in Engineering: A Good Place to Be? (Women in Society: A Feminist List)...
- Many of the women domestics and store clerks become stay-at-homes by default. Their immersion in their own needs, their hunger for something, prompts a comparison to Winesburg, Ohio (1919) and the white aspiration theme of so much 1920s work fiction.2001, Laura Hapke, “From Black Folk to Working Class: African American Labor Fiction between the World Wars”, in Labor’s Text: The Worker in American Fiction, New Brunswick, N.J.; London: Rutgers...
stay-at-home meaning in Tamil
stay-at-home in Tamil
- வீட்டுவாசல் தாண்டாதவர்
Examples of stay-at-home in a sentence
- I almost envy those stay-at-homes for whom Europe and the world is quite unproved.1911 August 20, Stephen Graham, “The White Night. Impressions of the Far North in Russia. From St. James’s Gazette.”, in The Los Angeles...
- Many stay-at-homes stay at home because they truly love the place.1997, Phillip C[raig] Schlechty, “[Leading the Change Process] Stay-at-Homes”, in Inventing Better Schools: An Action Plan for Educational...
- But on the whole, animals are ‘stay-at-homes’, and it is the ability to leave home without anxiety that is exceptional and which requires explanation.2000, Anthony Stevens, John Price, “Anxiety and phobic disorders”, in Evolutionary Psychiatry: A New Beginning, 2nd edition, London...
- Both the hardy long-distance travelers and the butterfly stay-at-homes face continual danger from predators.2005, Joni Phelps Hunt, “Hiding out & passing for poisonous”, in A Shimmer of Butterflies: The Brief, Brilliant Life of a Magical Insect...
Synonyms of stay-at-home
Forms of stay-at-home
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | stay at home |
| Noun | |
| plural | stay-at-homes |
Words formed from stay-at-home
Phrases with stay-at-home
Questions about stay-at-home
- What does stay-at-home mean?
- Stay-at-home means of a parent: not employed and rather devoting more time to one's children.
- What is stay-at-home in Tamil?
- Stay-at-home in Tamil is வீட்டுவாசல் தாண்டாதவர். See Stay-at-home meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use stay-at-home in a sentence?
- I almost envy those stay-at-homes for whom Europe and the world is quite unproved.
- What part of speech is stay-at-home?
- Stay-at-home can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near stay-at-home in the dictionary
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