Stay definition

Stay as a verb

1. stay the same; remain in a certain state

   "stay alone"

   Same sense: rest, remain

2. be in a certain place and not leave

   "We are staying in Detroit; we are not moving to Cincinnati"

   Same sense: stay put, remain, stick, stick around, persist

3. dwell

   "You can stay with me while you are in town"

   Same sense: abide, bide

4. continue in a place, position, or situation

   "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"

   Same sense: stay on, continue, remain

5. stop or halt

   "Please stay the bloodshed!"

   Same sense: delay, detain

6. hang on during a trial of endurance

   Same sense: last out, ride out, outride

7. stop a judicial process

   "The judge stayed the execution order"

8. fasten with stays

9. overcome or allay

   Same sense: appease, quell

Stay as a noun

10. continuing or remaining in a place or state

    "they had a nice stay in Paris"

11. the state of inactivity following an interruption

    "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"

    Same sense: stop, check, arrest, halt, hitch, stoppage

12. 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"

13. a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset)

14. (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar

Synonyms and antonyms

• rest definition
• remain
• stay put
• stick
• stick around
• persist
• abide
• bide
• stay on
• continue definition
• delay
• detain
• last out
• ride out
• outride
• appease
• quell
• stop definition
• check definition
• arrest
• halt
• hitch
• stoppage

Opposites: change, move, depart.

All synonyms of stay, sense by sense

How to say stay

Stay has 1 syllable and rhymes with they. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

Words that rhyme with stay

• they
• way
• may
• day
• say
• away
• play
• today
• pay
• re
• ok
• hey

STAY in word games

Scrabble

7

Words With Friends

6

Anagrams

0

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