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stays on

stays on is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 stays on

What is stays on the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Stays on is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stay on.

Words near stays on in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stays 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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