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

Fallon, a 46-year-old stay-at-home mom, has spent more than a decade raising Boerboels and has owned five of the powerful South African guardian dogs since first discovering the breed in 2008. —Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026

Tonya Drew, a stay-at-home mother of 10 in Tempe, has spent years deliberately avoiding Amazon. —Rey Covarrubias Jr, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026

Pierce Kelly, a NIPSCO employee, said his wife has been a stay-at-home mom for 13 years raising their five children, four boys and one girl, the youngest. —Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2026

Courtney Kim, a stay-at-home mom based in Pittsburgh, is among the patients taking the Wegovy pill who have yet to experience notable side effects. —Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 7 Apr. 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