Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1836, from adjectival stay-at-home (1806); see stay (v.1).
Wiktionary
a. (context of a parent English) Not employed, and rather devoting more time to one's children. alt. (context of a parent English) Not employed, and rather devoting more time to one's children.
WordNet
adj. not given to travel; "a stay-at-home friend" [syn: stay-at-home(a)]
n. a person who seldom goes anywhere; one not given to wandering or travel [syn: homebody]
Wikipedia
Stay-at-home may refer to:
- Stay-at-home dad, a male parent who is the main caregiver of the children and the home
- Stay-at-home daughter, a woman who lives at home until she is married
- Stay-at-home defenceman, a hockey defenceman who plays a very defensive minded game
- Stay-at-home mom, a female parent who is the main caregiver of the children and the home
Usage examples of "stay-at-home".
He has been a high school wrestler, a scuba diving instructor, a quahog diver, a UPS sorter, a word-processing consultant, a private pilot, and a stay-at-home dad.
He has been a high school wrestler, a scuba diving instructor, a quahog diver, a UPS sorter, a private pilot, a freelance instructional and web designer, and a stay-at-home dad.
He has been a high school wrestler, a scuba diving instructor, a quahog diver, a UPS sorter, a private pilot, a freelance instructional designer, and a stay-at-home dad.
So passed away the fighting men by the side of Mirkwood-water, and the throng of the stay-at-homes melted slowly from the meadow and trickled along through the acres to the habitations of the Wolfings, and there they fell to doing whatso of work or play came to their hands.
Of course, he and some marines kept a sharp eye on them, since the contents of the Not For Hire must have proved very tempting to landlubbing stay-at-homes.
But these stay-at-homes with the Hall-Sun were stayed by the command of Thiodolf on the crown of the slope above the dwellings, and stood round about the Speech-Hill, on the topmost of which stood the HallSun, and the wondrous Lamp, and the men who warded her and it.
I went with the host to the assembly of the stay-at-homes and fleers, and sat before the Hall-Sun our daughter, and said the words which were put into my mouth.
But I think not that they shall withstand us so long, but that the men of Up-mark and the stay-at-homes shall have the chasing of them.
When that point was reached, most cultures expanded rapidly into the galaxy, although there were always a few stay-at-homes who preferred to colonise only their own solar systems, or sometimes even just their own circum-planetary environments.
He helps out around the house and tries to be a model, stay-at-home husband.
The spirit of adventure in him was being wrestled down by the spirit of stay-at-home, and by eight o'clock in the evening he was pacing up and down the room, first planning the trip, then unplanning it.
On the basis of liberal squawking about welfare-to-work requirements, apparently the only women who liberals think should be stay-at-home mothers are single women on the dole.