stay-at-home
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
Inflected forms:
form: stay at home
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: stay-at-homes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stay at home
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a parent: not employed and rather devoting more time to one's children.
pos: adj
tags: attributive
not-comparable
examples: stay-at-home dad
Ms. Andrews is forthright about her distress. “Jonathan’s eating habits have irritated me for years anyway and have only been exacerbated during the last six or seven weeks of him working from home,” said Ms. Andrews, 53, a stay-at-home parent who lives just outside London, in Surrey.
gloss: Of rules or regulations: forbidding the populace to leave their domicile except under emergency or other special circumstances, especially for purposes of quarantine.
pos: adj
tags: attributive
not-comparable
examples: stay-at-home orders
In April Jenny Rappaport sat down to inspect her calendar because she could not tell how many days had passed since New Jersey’s stay-at-home order took effect.
gloss: Of or relating to quarantine in the home.
pos: adj
tags: attributive
not-comparable
examples: the stay-at-home era
stay-at-home boredom
gloss: Not ever travelling or moving far from home.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He was a seaman, but he was a wanderer too, while most seamen lead, if one may so express it, a sedentary life. Their minds are of the stay-at-home order, and their home is always with them—the ship; and so is their country—the sea.
gloss: Playing very defensively; not leaving the defensive zone early.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A person or animal that prefers to stay at home rather than socialize or travel.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Some animals are stay-at-homes, and some are travelers and migrate. Tommy, who finds this out, is a little like both.
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.
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.
Both the hardy long-distance travelers and the butterfly stay-at-homes face continual danger from predators.
gloss: A parent who is not employed and rather devoting more time to children.
pos: noun
examples: 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] […]
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.
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.
Derived words: stay-at-homer
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