stay

stay is one of the 1000 most common headwords.

station - stay - step

Pronunciation

• enPR: stā, IPA ^(key): /steɪ/
• SAMPA: /steI/

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Verb

Plain form stay

Third-person singular stays

Past tense stayed

Past participle stayed

Present participle staying

1. (intransitive) When you stay somewhere, you do not move from there.

   Whenever I am tired I stay in bed.

   He stayed at our house for two weeks.

Noun

Singular stay

Plural stays

1. (countable) A stay is a period of time when someone does not move from a location.

   He had a stay in the country for a year.