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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(chiefly attributive) Of a parent: not employed and rather devoting more time to one's children..
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.
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.
the stay-at-home era
stay-at-home boredom
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.
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.
Use stay-at-home when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Stay-at-home means (chiefly attributive) Of a parent: not employed and rather devoting more time to one's children..
Common synonyms include homebody.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
stay-at-home dad
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