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empty nest

n. A home or a family where the children have grown up and moved away.

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Empty nest

Empty nest can refer to:

  • Empty nest syndrome, experienced by parents when children move away from their parents' house
  • Empty Nest, an American television show
  • Empty Nest, a 2008 Argentine drama film
Empty Nest (film)

Empty Nest is a 2008 Argentine drama film written and directed by Daniel Burman and starring Oscar Martínez and Cecilia Roth.

Usage examples of "empty nest".

He stood up from where he had been kneeling beside the empty nest at the center of the chamber and tossed the pulsator tool aside.

The empty nest flew up, a huge mass of sticks and vines and feathers and scales and bones.

When she came back with the coffee, he stood staring down into the index file like a bird fixing its gaze on a half-empty nest.