empty nester

1. 1.

   a parent whose children have grown up and left home

   Broaderparent

Questions about empty nester

What does empty nester mean?

empty nester means "a parent whose children have grown up and left home".

Is empty nester a common word?

empty nester is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.