to stay home
- phrasal verb
- /steɪ hoʊm/
- The evidence does suggest that many nurses stay home when their child is sick.
- stay home when ill
- stay home from work
- stay home for the day
Esmando veso Y stay home and stay safe.
- Esmando veso Y stay home and stay safe.
- In the meantime, take care of yourselves, stay home, and we'll see you very soon.
- Train workers are staying home with nothing to do for days on end.
- They, you know, the government said stay home and, you know, get well, stay healthy.
- That's why I said my instructions and my models were to stay home and stay safe.
- We, we yeah, we just stayed home, I guess.
- Crafting exploded this year when we were all staying home and trying to stay occupied.
- And Bostons mayor tells college students, if you go home for Thanksgiving, stay home until spring.
- So if government says today you guys would have to stay home, then everyone stay home.
Examples
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- He should stay home if he feels sick.
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My wife stays home with our one year old baby.
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Suppose that I stay home and watch something on TV.
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Everyone should stay home and get better at living on earth.
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This is a time when we're forced to stay home together.
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Train workers are staying home with nothing to do for days on end.
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There is less stuff being produced because people are staying home rather than working.
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In those cases, they should stay home and put their own house in order.
Academic text (1990) -
I think I'll stay home and do some packing.
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I think I'll stay home and do some packing.
Synonyms
Remain inside a building to avoid bad weather or danger
Antonyms
How Homebound
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to remain in one's residence' is directly and compositionally derived from 'stay' (to remain) + 'home' (one's residence); the locative combination is a standard, predictable English pattern. This construction is cross-linguistically common and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows the two constituent words.
Etymology
Stay home paints a simple picture: you stay in your home and do not go out. So it means 'stay where you live'.