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

Questions can arise about how often stay-at-home parents—eighty per cent of whom are women—actually cooked or cleaned. —Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025

On Saturday night, Bruins coach Marco Sturm surprised everyone in the Garden by tapping the stay-at-home defenseman’s shoulder in the potential game-winning situation in the shootout against the Vancouver Canucks. —Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 21 Dec. 2025

Liz Kihn, a stay-at-home mom from Pennsylvania, has seen videos of mothers waking up on Christmas morning to find their stockings empty while the rest of the family laughs it off. —Lily Hautau, CNN Money, 20 Dec. 2025

Make an emergency stay-at-home kit with basic supplies and food for everyone in your home for 72 hours. —Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Dec. 2025

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