Stay-at-home

Alternative forms

• stay at home

Full definition of stay-at-home

Adjective

1. (of a parent) Not employed, and rather devoting more time to one's children.

Usage notes

This adjective is mostly restricted to attributive use; predicative uses such as in “My mother is stay-at-home” do exist, but are quite rare.

In particular, this adjective is most commonly found in the expressions stay-at-home mother, father, mom, dad, motherhood, and so on.