stay-at-home

adjective

ˈstā-ət-ˈhōm How to pronounce stay-at-home (audio)
Synonyms of stay-at-homenext
: remaining in one's residence, locality, or country
especially : remaining at home especially to tend to children and domestic duties while a spouse is at work
stay-at-home noun

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Evacuation orders were lifted for about 20,000 people in the Madrid region, while stay-at-home restrictions ended for another 14,000. — Thomas Adamson, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026 The neighbor, Florent Jean, told the outlet that the wife was a stay-at-home mother and the husband worked. — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026 Previously, Stock worked in child protective services and was a stay-at-home mother. — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 26 July 2026 The first state to intervene with a stay-at-home or shelter-in-place order was California on March 19, 2020, followed by New York and New Jersey the next two days; the last was South Carolina, 19 days later. — Marc Lipsitch, STAT, 21 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for stay-at-home

Word History

First Known Use

1806, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of stay-at-home was in 1806

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