"stay-at-home" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} stay-at-home (not comparable)
  1. (chiefly attributive) Of a parent: not employed and rather devoting more time to one's children. Tags: attributive, not-comparable Translations (of a parent: not employed): hjemmegående (Danish), koti- (Finnish), kotiin jäävä (Finnish), kotona pysyvä (Finnish), au foyer (French), nicht berufstätig (German), nichtberufstätig (German), otthon tartózkodó (Hungarian), otthon maradó (Hungarian), hjemmeværende (Norwegian Bokmål), heimeværende (Norwegian Bokmål), heimeverande (Norwegian Nynorsk), niezatrudniony (Polish)
    Sense id: en-stay-at-home-en-adj-txNjzaFA Categories (other): English terms with collocations Disambiguation of 'of a parent: not employed': 60 1 1 37
  2. (attributive) Of rules or regulations: forbidding the populace to leave their domicile except under emergency or other special circumstances, especially for purposes of quarantine. Tags: attributive, not-comparable Categories (topical): Coronavirus
    Sense id: en-stay-at-home-en-adj-UFeoDVha Disambiguation of Coronavirus: 9 24 20 30 8 8 Categories (other): Terms with Hungarian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 9 15 9 30 26 10
  3. (attributive) Of or relating to quarantine in the home. Tags: attributive, not-comparable Categories (topical): Coronavirus
    Sense id: en-stay-at-home-en-adj-L-KpzkgR Disambiguation of Coronavirus: 9 24 20 30 8 8
  4. Not ever travelling or moving far from home. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Coronavirus
    Sense id: en-stay-at-home-en-adj-Wuorl-nD Disambiguation of Coronavirus: 9 24 20 30 8 8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations, Terms with Polish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 13 3 42 15 10 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 13 13 4 39 19 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 11 14 4 43 16 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 12 14 2 46 15 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 13 14 5 43 14 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 15 15 6 36 17 12 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 13 12 4 37 22 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 9 15 9 30 26 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 15 15 6 35 17 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations: 13 15 4 45 13 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 13 16 9 32 17 12

Noun [English]

Forms: stay-at-homes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} stay-at-home (plural stay-at-homes)
  1. A person or animal that prefers to stay at home rather than socialize or travel. Synonyms: homebody, stay at home
    Sense id: en-stay-at-home-en-noun-ySLEAtKQ Categories (other): Terms with Hungarian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 9 15 9 30 26 10
  2. A parent who is not employed and rather devoting more time to children.
    Sense id: en-stay-at-home-en-noun-TlTHHM3s Categories (other): Terms with Hungarian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 9 15 9 30 26 10

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "Other species, like wildebeest, forage over large distances, while others again, like birds, are strictly territorial at certain times of the year yet, at other times, have the capacity to make long migrations. 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.",
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of a parent: not employed",
      "word": "kotona pysyvä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "of a parent: not employed",
      "word": "au foyer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "of a parent: not employed",
      "word": "nicht berufstätig"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "of a parent: not employed",
      "word": "nichtberufstätig"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "of a parent: not employed",
      "word": "otthon tartózkodó"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "of a parent: not employed",
      "word": "otthon maradó"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "of a parent: not employed",
      "word": "hjemmeværende"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "of a parent: not employed",
      "word": "heimeværende"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "of a parent: not employed",
      "word": "heimeverande"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "of a parent: not employed",
      "word": "niezatrudniony"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stay-at-home"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
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    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
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    "Terms with Danish translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "en:Coronavirus"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stay-at-homes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "stay-at-home (plural stay-at-homes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "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”, page 249, columns 2–3:",
          "text": "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, and I went there and saw what it was. I almost envy those stay-at-homes for whom Europe and the world is quite unproved.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "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 (Center for School Experimentation, Study of Independent Reading; Bulletin Number 1), Columbus, Oh.: College of Education, The Ohio State University, →OCLC, page 13:",
          "text": "Some animals are stay-at-homes, and some are travelers and migrate. Tommy, who finds this out, is a little like both.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Phillip C[raig] Schlechty, “[Leading the Change Process] Stay-at-Homes”, in Inventing Better Schools: An Action Plan for Educational Reform (The Jossey-Bass Education Series), San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass Publishers, →ISBN, page 218:",
          "text": "Many stay-at-homes stay at home because they truly love the place. Of course, some people simply are too timid to go to unfamiliar places.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Anthony Stevens, John Price, “Anxiety and phobic disorders”, in Evolutionary Psychiatry: A New Beginning, 2nd edition, London; Philadelphia, Pa.: Routledge, →ISBN, part II (Disorders of attachment and rank), page 106:",
          "text": "Other species, like wildebeest, forage over large distances, while others again, like birds, are strictly territorial at certain times of the year yet, at other times, have the capacity to make long migrations. 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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Joni Phelps Hunt, “Hiding out & passing for poisonous”, in A Shimmer of Butterflies: The Brief, Brilliant Life of a Magical Insect, Montrose, Calif.: London Town Press, →ISBN, page 35, column 1:",
          "text": "Both the hardy long-distance travelers and the butterfly stay-at-homes face continual danger from predators.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person or animal that prefers to stay at home rather than socialize or travel."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "socialize",
          "socialize"
        ],
        [
          "travel",
          "travel"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "homebody"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "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), Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Education Ltd, →ISBN, page 102:",
          "text": "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] […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "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 University Press, →ISBN, part II (The Road to 1930), page 205:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Charlie Leckenby, “[From the Frontlines of Fatherhood: More Dads in the Spotlight] The Stay-At-Home Dad Blues”, in Peter Baylies, Jessica Toonkel, The Stay-at-Home Dad Handbook, Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, page 188:",
          "text": "Like many stay-at-home dads, I found myself both elated and paralyzed by the idea of caring for our son eights hours a day, five days a week. My wife and I were in the same position many stay-at-homes face: she made more money than I did, and the cost of daycare per month was as much as I was making in a month.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A parent who is not employed and rather devoting more time to children."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "parent",
          "parent"
        ],
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          "employed",
          "employed"
        ],
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          "children",
          "child"
        ]
      ]
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  ],
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    {
      "word": "stay at home"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stay-at-home"
}

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