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stay ¹  (st)

v. stayed, stay·ing, stays

v.intr.

1. To continue to be in a place or condition: stay home; stay calm.

2. To remain or sojourn as a guest or lodger: stayed at a motel.

3. To stop moving; halt.

4. To wait; pause.

5. To endure or persist: stayed with the original plan.

6. To keep up in a race or contest: tried to stay with the lead runner.

7. Games To meet a bet in poker without raising it.

8. To stand one's ground; remain firm.

9. Archaic To cease from a specified activity.

v.tr.

1. To stop or halt; check.

2. To postpone; delay.

3. To delay or stop the effect of (an order, for example) by legal action or mandate: stay a prisoner's execution.

4. To satisfy or appease temporarily: stayed his anger.

5. To remain during: stayed the week with my parents; stayed the duration of the game.

6. To wait for; await: "I will not stay thy questions. Let me go;/Or if thou follow me, do not believe/But I shall do thee mischief in the wood" Shakespeare.

n.

1. The act of halting; check.

2. The act of coming to a halt.

3. A brief period of residence or visiting.

4. A suspension or postponement of a legal action or an execution: granted a stay to the prisoner's execution.

Idioms:

stay put

To remain in a fixed or established position.

stay the course

To hold out or persevere to the end of a race or challenge.

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[Middle English steien, from Old French ester, esteir, from Latin stre; see st- in Indo-European roots.]

Synonyms: stay¹, remain, wait, abide, tarry¹, linger, sojourn
These verbs mean to continue to be in a given place. Stay is the least specific, though it can also suggest that the person involved is a guest or visitor: "Must you go? Can't you stay?" Charles J. Vaughan.
Remain often implies continuing or being left after others have gone: I remained at the end of the meeting to talk to the speaker.
Wait suggests remaining in readiness, anticipation, or expectation: "Your father is waiting for me to take a walk with him" Booth Tarkington.
Abide implies continuing for a lengthy period: "Abide with me" Henry Francis Lyte.
Tarry and linger both imply a delayed departure, but linger more strongly suggests reluctance to leave: "She was not anxious but puzzled that her husband tarried" Eden Phillpotts. "I alone sit lingering here" Henry Vaughan.
To sojourn is to reside temporarily in a place: "He was sojourning at [a] hotel in Bond Street" Anthony Trollope. See Also Synonyms at defer¹.

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stay ²  (st)

tr.v. stayed, stay·ing, stays

1. To brace, support, or prop up.

2. To strengthen or sustain mentally or spiritually.

3. To rest or fix on for support.

n.

1. A support or brace.

2. A strip of bone, plastic, or metal, used to stiffen a garment or part, such as a corset or shirt collar.

3. stays A corset.

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[Middle English staien, from Old French estaiier, from estaie, a support, of Germanic origin.]

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stay ¹

Verb

1. to continue or remain in a place, position, or condition: to stay away, to stay inside

2. to lodge as a guest or visitor temporarily: we stay with friends

3. Scot & S African to reside permanently; live

4. to endure (something testing or difficult): you have stayed the course this long

Noun

1. the period spent in one place

2. the postponement of an order of a court of law: a stay of execution [Old French ester]

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stay ²

Noun

something that supports or steadies something, such as a prop or buttress [Old French estaye]

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stay ³

Noun

a rope or chain supporting a ship's mast or funnel [Old English stæg]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	stay - continuing or remaining in a place or state; "they had a nice stay in Paris"; "a lengthy hospital stay"; "a four-month stay in bankruptcy court" human action, human activity, act, deed - something that people do or cause to happen sojourn, visit - a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest) layover, stopover, stop - a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends"
	2.	stay - the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat" halt, stoppage, hitch, arrest, check, stop inaction, inactiveness, inactivity - the state of being inactive countercheck - a check that restrains another check logjam - any stoppage attributable to unusual activity; "the legislation ran into a logjam"
	3.	stay - a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted; "the Supreme Court has the power to stay an injunction pending an appeal to the whole Court" decree, fiat, edict, rescript, order - a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there" stay of execution - an order whereby a judgment is precluded from being executed for a specific period of time law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
	4.	stay - a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset) strip, slip - artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
	5.	stay - (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar sailing, seafaring, navigation - the work of a sailor backstay - a stay that supports the back of something bracing, brace - a structural member used to stiffen a framework forestay - an adjustable stay from the foremast to the deck or bowsprit; controls the bending of the mast
Verb	1.	stay - stay the same; remain in a certain state; "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week" remain, rest keep out - remain outside sit tight - maintain the same position; wait it out; "Let's not make a decision--let's sit tight" stay together, stick together - be loyal to one another, especially in times of trouble; "The two families stuck together throughout the war" be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" stand - remain inactive or immobile; "standing water" stay fresh, keep - fail to spoil or rot; "These potatoes keep for a long time" be - to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form; "let her be" change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"
	2.	stay - stay put (in a certain place); "We are staying in Detroit; we are not moving to Cincinnati"; "Stay put in the corner here!"; "Stick around and you will learn something!" stay put, stick, stick around stay in place - be stationary move - change residence, affiliation, or place of employment; "We moved from Idaho to Nebraska"; "The basketball player moved from one team to another"
	3.	stay - dwell; "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young" abide, bide archaicism, archaism - the use of an archaic expression visit - stay with as a guest; "Every summer, we visited our relatives in the country for a month" outstay, overstay - stay too long; "overstay or outstay one's welcome" stay on, remain, stay, continue - continue in a place, position, or situation; "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year"
	4.	stay - continue in a place, position, or situation; "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year" stay on, remain, continue be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" abide, bide, stay - dwell; "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young" hold over - continue a term of office past the normal period of time
	5.	stay - remain behind; "I had to stay at home and watch the children" take leave, quit, depart - go away or leave
	6.	stay - stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!" detain, delay retard, delay, check - slow the growth or development of; "The brain damage will retard the child's language development"
	7.	stay - stay behind; "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility remained long after they made up" persist, remain stick - endure; "The label stuck to her for the rest of her life" linger - remain present although waning or gradually dying; "Her perfume lingered on"
	8.	stay - hang on during a trial of endurance; "ride out the storm" last out, outride, ride out outstay - surpass in staying power; "They outstayed their competitors"
	9.	stay - stop a judicial process; "The judge stayed the execution order" kibosh, stop, block, halt - stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"
	10.	stay - fasten with stays fasten, fix, secure - cause to be firmly attached; "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man"
	11.	stay - overcome or allay; "quell my hunger" appease, quell fulfil, fulfill, satisfy, meet, fill - fill or meet a want or need

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stay

verb 1. remain, continue to be, linger, stand, stop, wait, settle, delay, halt, pause, hover, abide, hang around (informal) reside, stay put, bide, loiter, hang in the air, tarry, put down roots, establish yourself << OPPOSITE go

verb 2. (often with at) lodge, visit, sojourn, put up at, be accommodated at

verb 3. continue, remain, go on, survive, endure

verb 4. suspend, put off, defer, adjourn, hold over, hold in abeyance, prorogue

noun 5. visit, stop, holiday, stopover, sojourn

noun 6. postponement, delay, suspension, stopping, halt, pause, reprieve, remission, deferment

Translations

stay [steɪ] n (period of time) → estancia;

(LAW): stay of execution → aplazamiento de una sentencia

vi (= remain) → quedar(se);

(as guest) → hospedarse;

to stay put → seguir en el mismo sitio;

to stay the night/5 days → pasar la noche/estar or quedarse 5 días

stay behind vi → quedar atrás

stay in vi (at home) → quedarse en casa

stay on vi → quedarse

stay out vi (of house) → no volver a casa; [strikers] → no volver al trabajo

stay up vi (at night) → velar, no acostarse

stay [steɪ] n (= period of time) → séjour m;

(Law);

stay of execution → sursis m à statuer vi → rester (= reside); loger (= spend some time); séjourner;

to stay put → ne pas bouger;

to stay with friends → loger chez des amis;

to stay the night → passer la nuit

stay away vi (from person, building) → ne pas s'approcher;

(from event) → ne pas venir

stay behind vi → rester en arrière

stay in vi (at home) → rester à la maison

stay on vi → rester

stay out vi (of house) → ne pas rentrer; [strikers] → rester en grève

stay up vi (at night) → ne pas se coucher

stay [steɪ] n → Aufenthalt m

vi → bleiben;

(with sb, as guest) → wohnen;

(in hotel) → übernachten;

stay of execution (Law) → Aussetzung f;

to stay put → bleiben;

to stay with friends → bei Freunden untergebracht sein;

to stay the night → übernachten

stay behind stay vi → zurückbleiben

stay in stay vi (at home) → zu Hause bleiben

stay on stay vi → bleiben

stay out stay vi (of house) → wegbleiben;

(remain on strike) → weiterstreiken

stay up stay vi (at night) → aufbleiben

stay [steɪ] n (= period of time) → soggiorno, permanenza

vi → rimanere (= reside); alloggiare, stare (= spend some time); trattenersi, soggiornare;

stay of execution (LAW) → sospensione f dell'esecuzione;

to stay put → non muoversi;

to stay with friends → stare presso amici;

to stay the night → passare la notte

stay behind vi → restare indietro

stay in vi (at home) → stare in casa

stay on vi → restare, rimanere

stay out vi (of house) → rimanere fuori (di casa); [strikers] → continuare lo sciopero

stay up vi (at night) → rimanere alzato/a

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stay

v stay [stei]

1 to remain (in a place) for a time, eg while travelling, or as a guest etc We stayed three nights at that hotel / with a friend / in Paris; Aunt Mary is coming to stay (for a fortnight); Would you like to stay for supper?; Stay and watch that television programme.blyيَبْقى، يَمْكُثстояzůstatopholde sig; blivebleibenμένωjääma, viibimaماندن از نظر زمانيjäädä, asuaresterלְהִישָאֵרरहना, ठहरनाostatitartózkodiktinggaldvelja, vera kyrrrestare, rimanereとどまる머무르다, 체재하다apsistoti, pasiliktiuzturēties; palikttinggalblijvenbli, oppholde seg, bo (midlertidig)zostawać, zatrzymywać sięficara sta, a rămâneостанавливатьсяzostaťostatiostatistanna, vistas, boพักอยู่; อาศัยอยู่kalmak(暫)住，留зупинятися, житиرک جاناở lại, lưu lại（暂）住，留

2 to remain (in a particular position, place, state or condition) The doctor told her to stay in bed; He never stays long in any job; Stay away from the office till your cold is better; Why won't these socks stay up?; Stay where you are – don't move!; In 1900, people didn't realize that motor cars were here to stay.blyيَبْقىоставамzůstat, vydržetblivebleibenπαραμένωpüsimaتوقف كردنpysyäresterלְהִישַאֵרरहना, बसनाmirovatimaradtetaphalda kyrru fyrir; haldast (uppi); vera (kyrr/til frambúðar)restare～のままでいる(어떤 위치·장소·상태 등에) 머무르다, 그대로 있다būti, liktipalikt; turētiesberadablijvenbli (hvor man er), holde (senga), komme for å blipozostawaćficara sta, a rămâneоставатьсяzostaťostatiostatistanna [], hålla sig [], sitta []อยู่kalmak保持在某處，獃在...залишатися; затримуватисяرہناở trong trạng thái, điều kiện, vị trí nào đó保持在某处，呆在...

n

a period of staying (in a place etc) We had an overnight stay / a two days' stay in London.bly, oorstaanمُكوث، إقامَهпрестойpobytopholdder Aufenthaltδιαμονή, παραμονήviibimineمدت توقفoleskeluséjourשְׁהִייָהतान-रस्सी, ठहराव, टिकाव, स्थगनboravak, trajanje boravkatartózkodásmasa tinggaldvölsoggiorno, permanenza滞在期間체류 기간viešnagėuzturēšanās; apstāšanās; viesošanāsmenginapverblijfoppholdpobytestadiasejurпребываниеpobytbivanjeboravakvistelse, uppehållการพักอยู่ที่ใดที่หนึ่งในช่วงสั้น ๆkalma停留(一段時間)зупинка, перебуванняسکونتsự lưu lại停留（一段时间）

stay behind

to remain in a place after others have left it They all left the office at five o'clock, but he stayed behind to finish some work.agterblyيَتَخَلَّف عَنоставамzůstatblive tilbagezurückbleibenμένω πίσω, παραμένωkauemaks jäämaبعد از رفتن ديگران در جايي ماندنjäädä muiden lähdettyäresterלְהִישָאֵר מְאָחוֹרदूसरों के जाने के बाद भी बने रहनाzaostati, ostati straga(ott) maradtetap tinggalvera eftirrimanere居残る남아 있다pasiliktipalikt ilgāk par citiemtinggalachterblijvenbli igjenzostawaćdemorar-sea ră­mâne în urmăоставатьсяzostaťostatizaostatistanna kvarยังอยู่ต่อgitmeyip kalmak留在人後，留下來不走залишатисяکسی جگہ پر ٹھہرنا جبکہ دوسرے جا چکے ہوںở lại sau留在人后，留下来不走

stay in

to remain in one's house etc and not go out of doors I'm staying in tonight to watch television.in iemand se plek weesيَبْقى في البَيْتстоя вкъщиzůstat domablive hjemmezu Hause bleibenμένω στο σπίτιkoju jäämaدر خانه ماندنjäädä kotiinrester chez soiלְהִישָאֵר בַּבָּיִתघर में ही रहनाostati kod kućebenn maradtinggal di rumahhalda sig heimaviðrimanere (a casa)外出しない집에 있다, 밖에 나가지 않다neišeiti iš namų, būti namiepalikt mājāstinggal di dalam rumahbinnenblijvenholde seg inne/hjemmezostawać w domu, nie wychodzićficar em casaa sta/a rămâne în casăоставаться домаzostať domaostati domaostati kod kućestanna hemma (inne)ยังอยู่ภายในevde oturmak獃在家裡залишатися дома, не виходитиگھر کے اند رقیام کرناkhông ra ngoài呆在家里

stay out

to remain out of doors and not return to one's house etc The children mustn't stay out after 9 p.m.buite blyيَبْقى خارِج البَيْتстоя навънzůstat venkuvære udedraußen bleibenμένω εκτός σπιτιούväljas olemaبيرون از خانه ماندنolla ulkonarester dehorsלְהִישָאֵר בַּחוּץघर से बाहर रहनाostati napolju, izvan čegakimaradtinggal di luar rumahvera útirestare fuori外にいるbūti lauke, negrįžti į namusuzkavēties ārā/ārpus mājasberada di luarbuitenblijvenbli utepozostawać poza domemfora de ficar casaa nu veni acasăне возвращаться домойzostať vonkuostati zunajostati napoljustanna (vara) uteยังอยู่ข้างนอกdışarda kalmak/durmak獃在戶外не бути вдома; бути відсутнімگھر سے باہر رہناở ngoài, không về nhà呆在户外

stay put

to remain where placed Once a child can crawl, he won't stay put for long.stilsitيَبْقى في مَكانِه حَيْثُ يوضَعстоя мирноzůstat na místěblive, hvor man ersich nicht (vom Fleck) rührenμένω στην ίδια θέσηpaigal püsimaماندن در جاي خودpysyä paikoillaanrester tranquilleלְהִישָאֵר בַּמָקוֹםस्थिर रहना, पड़ा रहनाostati na mjestu, nepromijenjenveszteg maradtetap di tempatnyahalda kyrru fyrirrestare fermoそのまま動かない(한곳에) 움직이지 않고 있다pasilikti vietojepalikt uz vietasberada tetap di suatu tempatop zijn plaats blijvenbli hvor en ernie ruszać się z miejsca, pozostać w miejscuficar quietoa sta liniştitоставаться на местеzostať na miesteostati na mestuostati na mestusitta (vara) stillยังอยู่ที่durduğu yerde durmak獃在原處不動залишатися на містіایک ہی جگہ پر رہناở nguyên một chỗ呆在原处不动

stay up

not to go to bed The children wanted to stay up and watch television.wakker blyيَبْقى يَقِظاстоя до късноzůstat vzhůrublive oppeaufbleibenμένω ξύπνιοςüleval passima, mitte magama minemaبيدار ماندنvalvoaveillerלְהִישָאֵר עֵרजागनाbdjeti, ostati budanfenn maradtidak tidurvaka frameftirrestare alzato起きている(자지 않고) 일어나 있다neiti miegotineiet gulētberjaga malamopblijvensitte oppenie kłaść się spaćde pé ficara sta treazне ложиться спатьzostať horebedetiostati budanstanna uppeไม่เข้านอนyatmamak, uyanık kalmak不睡覺не лягатиجاگتے رہناthức khuya不睡觉