stayer

1. 1.

   a person or other animal having powers of endurance or perseverance

   “the horse that won the race is a good stayer”

   Broaderanimal

Other forms of stayer

plural

stayers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about stayer

What does stayer mean?

stayer means "a person or other animal having powers of endurance or perseverance".

How many syllables are in stayer?

stayer has 2 syllables: sta-yer. The stress falls on "sta". In IPA it is /ˈsteɪɚ/.

Is stayer a common word?

stayer 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.