stay-at-home
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.19 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of rules or regulations: forbidding the populace to leave their domicile except under emergency or other special circumstances, especially for purposes of quarantine.
adj
Of or relating to quarantine in the home.
adj
Not ever travelling or moving far from home.
adj
Playing very defensively; not leaving the defensive zone early.
noun
A person or animal that prefers to stay at home rather than socialize or travel.
Example Sentences
- "stay-at-home dad"
- "Ms. Andrews is forthright about her distress. “Jonathan’s eating habits have irritated me for years anyway and have only been exacerbated during the last six or seven weeks of him working from home,” said Ms. Andrews, 53, a stay-at-home parent who lives just outside London, in Surrey."
- "stay-at-home orders"
- "In April Jenny Rappaport sat down to inspect her calendar because she could not tell how many days had passed since New Jersey’s stay-at-home order took effect."
- "the stay-at-home era"
- "stay-at-home boredom"