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- [stey]
- /steɪ/
- /steɪ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [stey]
- /steɪ/
Definitions of stay word
- verb without object stay (of a ship) to change to the other tack. 1
- verb with object stay to support or secure with a stay or stays: to stay a mast. 1
- verb with object stay to put (a ship) on the other tack. 1
- noun stay any of various strong ropes or wires for steadying masts, funnels, etc. 1
- idioms stay in stays, (of a fore-and-aft-rigged vessel) heading into the wind with sails shaking, as in coming about. 1
- intransitive verb stay remain 1
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Origin of stay
First appearance:
before 1400 One of the 24% oldest English words
1400-50; late Middle English staien < Anglo-French estaier, Old French estai-, stem of ester < Latin stāre to stand
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Parts of speech for Stay
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
stay popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 100% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
stay usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for stay
verb stay
- abide — to tolerate; put up with
- adjourn — If a meeting or trial is adjourned or if it adjourns, it is stopped for a short time.
- amnestied — a general pardon for offenses, especially political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction.
- anchor — An anchor is a heavy hooked object that is dropped from a boat into the water at the end of a chain in order to make the boat stay in one place.
- await — If you await someone or something, you wait for them.
noun stay
- adjournment — An adjournment is a temporary stopping of a trial, enquiry, or other meeting.
- administration — Administration is the range of activities connected with organizing and supervising the way that an organization or institution functions.
- apologist — An apologist is a person who writes or speaks in defence of a belief, a cause, or a person's life.
- arrest — If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
- bandeau — a narrow band of ribbon, velvet, etc, worn round the head
Antonyms for stay
verb stay
- abandon — If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.
- abdicate — If a king or queen abdicates, he or she gives up being king or queen.
- aberrated — simple past tense and past participle of aberrate.
- abscind — to cut off
- abscond — If someone absconds from somewhere such as a prison, they escape from it or leave it without permission.
noun stay
- avigation — aerial navigation.
- avoidance — Avoidance of someone or something is the act of avoiding them.
- awol — If someone in the Armed Forces goes AWOL, they leave their post without the permission of a superior officer. AWOL is an abbreviation for 'absent without leave'.
- awols — a soldier or other military person who is absent from duty without leave.
- castoff — thrown away; discarded; abandoned
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