STAY UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stay up mean? 

• STAY UP (verb)
  The verb STAY UP has 1 sense:

1. not go to bed

  Familiarity information: STAY UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STAY UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not go to bed

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

sit up; stay up

Context example:

We sat up all night to watch the election

Hypernyms (to "stay up" is one way to...):

wake (be awake, be alert, be there)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

MY father sent me to bed early that night, though I was very eager to stay up, for every word which this man said held my attention.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you told him to stay up there, and go to sleep alone, make him do it, or he will never learn to mind you.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

You don’t have to stay up all night to see it, unless you really want to!

(November Supermoon a Spectacular Sight, NASA)

How remiss I am to let you stay up so long.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The debbil get you sure if you stay up there.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)