STAY-AT-HOME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stay-at-home mean? 

• STAY-AT-HOME (noun)
  The noun STAY-AT-HOME has 1 sense:

1. a person who seldom goes anywhere; one not given to wandering or travel

  Familiarity information: STAY-AT-HOME used as a noun is very rare.

• STAY-AT-HOME (adjective)
  The adjective STAY-AT-HOME has 1 sense:

1. not given to travel

  Familiarity information: STAY-AT-HOME used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STAY-AT-HOME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who seldom goes anywhere; one not given to wandering or travel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

homebody; stay-at-home

Hypernyms ("stay-at-home" is a kind of...):

adult; grownup (a fully developed person from maturity onward)

• STAY-AT-HOME (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not given to travel

Context example:

a stay-at-home friend

Similar:

provincial (characteristic of the provinces or their people)

 Context examples 

You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting my foot over the door-mat.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Grant was exceedingly well contented to have it so: a talking pretty young woman like Miss Crawford is always pleasant society to an indolent, stay-at-home man; and Mr. Crawford's being his guest was an excuse for drinking claret every day.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)