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stayed on

stayed on is the simple past and past participle of stay on.

Meaning of stay on

Verb

stay on (third-person singular simple present stays on, present participle staying on, simple past and past participle stayed on)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stay, on.
    • How does your hat manage to stay on in such strong wind?
  2. (idiomatic) to continue in a place or situation, while others leave.
    • Some of her friends decided it was time to go home, but she wanted to stay on in there until sunrise.

Questions about stayed on

What is stayed on the simple past and past participle of?
Stayed on is the simple past and past participle of stay on.

Words near stayed on in the dictionary

  1. stayed behind
  2. stayed frosty
  3. stayed in
  4. stayed in one's lane
  5. stayed loose
  6. stayed on
  7. stayed out
  8. stayed over
  9. stayed put
  10. stayed the course
  11. stayed the distance

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stayed on (page history and authors); stay on (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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