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stay-at-home

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stay-at-home (stt-hm)
adj.
1. Inclined to remain in one's home, locality, or country.
2. Sports Not engaging much in the offensive play: a stay-at-home defenseman.
n.
A person who stays at or works from home.
stay-at-home
Adjective
(of a person) enjoying a quiet, settled, and unadventurous life
Noun
a stay-at-home person
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.stay-at-home - a person who seldom goes anywhere; one not given to wandering or travel
homebody
adult, grownup - a fully developed person from maturity onward
Adj.1.stay-at-home - not given to travel; "a stay-at-home friend"
provincial - characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"


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We naturally settled down into a very slow, stay-at-home manner of life, and resolved to be quiet, exemplary people, and roam no more for twenty or thirty days.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
Grant was exceedingly well contented to have it so: a talking pretty young woman like Miss Crawford is always pleasant society to an indolent, stay-at-home man; and Mr.
Mansfield Park by Austen, Jane View in context
Tedious talk this, but being a stay-at-home she liked it.
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