stay-at-home

1. 1.

   a person who seldom goes anywhere; one not given to wandering or travel

   Synonymshomebody

   Broaderadult

1. 1.

   not given to travel

   “a stay-at-home friend”

   Similarprovincial

Questions about stay-at-home

What does stay-at-home mean?

stay-at-home means "a person who seldom goes anywhere; one not given to wandering or travel". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stay-at-home?

stay-at-home has 2 syllables: stay-a-t-home. The stress falls on "stay-a".

What is another word for stay-at-home?

Close synonyms include homebody. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stay-at-home a common word?

stay-at-home is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.