stay-at-home

adjective

ˈstā-ət-ˈhōm 

: remaining in one's residence, locality, or country

especially : remaining at home especially to tend to children and domestic duties while a spouse is at work

stay-at-home noun

Examples of stay-at-home in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The White House is not expanding the CCDF budget so that states can provide benefits to stay-at-home and working parents. — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2026

The stay-at-home mom of three, an active member of First Baptist Church, was always ready to help. — Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2026

The idea to put a puck-moving defenceman with a bigger, more stay-at-home partner makes sense, but Nause got into trouble at both blue lines, creating odd-man rushes that Freij couldn’t sort out by himself. — Murat Ates, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Robert, a truck driver, and Catrina, a stay-at-home mom, have experience with online sales and operating vendor booths, but running a trade center with hundreds of vendors will be an entirely new venture for the couple. — Laura Colvin, Freep.com, 11 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1806, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for stay-at-home

• acrosome
• aerodrome
• catacomb
• centrosome
• chromosome
• cytochrome
• hippodrome
• honeycomb
• liposome
• meerschaum
• metronome
• microtome