Meaning of stay-at-home | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person or animal that prefers to stay at home rather than socialize or travel.
2. A parent who is not employed and rather devoting more time to children.

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Examples

“I had a fancy to go there [Archangel in Russia]. Now my fancy has been gratified, and there is yet another place written down in the charts of my experience. And it is always a little saddening to exchange a dream for a reality—once also the Caucasus was a name crowded with boundless possibility, and I went there and saw what it was. I almost envy those stay-at-homes for whom Europe and the world is quite unproved.”

“Some animals are stay-at-homes, and some are travelers and migrate. Tommy, who finds this out, is a little like both.”

“Many stay-at-homes stay at home because they truly love the place. Of course, some people simply are too timid to go to unfamiliar places.”

“Other species, like wildebeest, forage over large distances, while others again, like birds, are strictly territorial at certain times of the year yet, at other times, have the capacity to make long migrations. But on the whole, animals are ‘stay-at-homes’, and it is the ability to leave home without anxiety that is exceptional and which requires explanation.”

“Both the hardy long-distance travelers and the butterfly stay-at-homes face continual danger from predators.”

“We [women], I guess, got into the habit of being stay-at-homes while our children were small because you’re not there during the day with them, you tend to spend your evenings and weekends [with them] […]”

“Many of the women domestics and store clerks become stay-at-homes by default. Their immersion in their own needs, their hunger for something, prompts a comparison to Winesburg, Ohio (1919) and the white aspiration theme of so much 1920s work fiction.”

“Like many stay-at-home dads, I found myself both elated and paralyzed by the idea of caring for our son eights hours a day, five days a week. My wife and I were in the same position many stay-at-homes face: she made more money than I did, and the cost of daycare per month was as much as I was making in a month.”

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