stayed
UK/steɪd/
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Scotland/steːd/
stayed is the simple past and past participle of stay.
Meaning of stay
Verb
stay (third-person singular simple present stays, present participle staying, simple past and past participle stayed or (obsolete) staid)
- To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
- We stayed in Hawaii for a week. I can only stay for an hour.
- Synonyms:
- abide
- To continue to have a particular quality.
- Wear gloves so your hands stay warm.
- Synonyms:
- continue
- To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
- Lord Mayor of London. See, where he stands between two clergymen!
Duke of Buckingham. Two props of virtue for a Christian prince,
To stay him from the fall of vanity:c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- Lord Mayor of London. See, where he stands between two clergymen!
- To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
- […] he has devoured a whole loaf of bread and butter, as fast as Phoebe could cut it, and it has not staid his stomach for a minute […]1826, [Walter Scott], chapter XX, in Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London...
- To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
- Your ships are stay’d at Venice.c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
- […] all that may but with any the least shew of possibility stay their mindes from thinking that true, which they heartily wish were false, but cannot think it so […]1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book 5, in The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker, London: Andrew Crook, 1666, p.
- Synonyms:
- curb
Forms of stayed
| alternative form (obsolete) | staid |
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Words formed from stayed
Phrases with stayed
- stayed in
- stayed on
- stayed up
- stayed out
- stayed put
- stayed away
- stayed back
- stayed over
- stayed loose
- stayed tuned
- stayed behind
- stayed frosty
8 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with stayed
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- abraid
- blockade
- cade
- fade
- glade
- raid
- upbraid
- abrade
- crusade
- esplanade
- invade
- lade
- unlaid
- upgrade
- brigade
- brocade
- cavalcade
- colonnade
- displayed
- glissade
- grenade
- paid
- palisade
- unlade
- afraid
- ambuscade
- arcade
- corrade
- degrade
- enfilade
- evade
- jade
- lemonade
- made
- maid
- persuade
- pomade
- spade
- unmade
- aide
- cannonade
- carbonade
- carronade
- clade
- cockade
- Dade
- decayed
- dragonnade
Questions about stayed
- What is stayed the simple past and past participle of?
- Stayed is the simple past and past participle of stay.
- How do you pronounce stayed?
- Stayed is pronounced /steɪd/ (UK).
Words near stayed in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: stayed (page history and authors); stay (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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