Stay

Definition: Stay

Stay

Noun

1. 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".

2. 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".

3. 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".

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

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

Verb

1. 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".

2. 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!".

3. Dwell (archaic); "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young".

4. 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".

5. Remain behind; "I had to stay at home and watch the children".

6. Stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!".

7. Stay behind; "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility remained long after they made up".

8. A trial of endurance; "ride out the storm".

9. Stop a judicial process: "The judge stayed the execution order".

10. : fasten with stays.

11. : overcome or allay; "quell my hunger".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stay" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Food & Agriculture

Law

Mechanical Engineering

Mining

Slang in 1811

Sports & Leisure

Tips from 1870

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Stay

Cessation

Verb: cease, discontinue, desist, stay, halt; break off, leave off; hold, stop, pull up, stop short; stick, hang fire; halt; pause, rest; burn out, blow out, melt down.

Existence

Abide, continue, endure, last, remain, stay.

Hindrance

Obstruct, stop, stay, bar, bolt, lock; block, block up; choke off; belay, barricade; block the way, bar the way, stop the way; forelay; dam up; (close); put on the brake; Noun: scotch the wheel, lock the wheel, put a spoke in the wheel; put a stop to; traverse, contravene; interrupt, intercept; oppose; hedge in, hedge round; cut off; inerclude.

Encumbrance, incumbrance; clog, skid, shoe, spoke; drag, drag chain, drag weight; stay, stop; preventive, prophylactic; load, burden, fardel, onus, millstone round one's neck, impedimenta; dead weight; lumber, pack; nightmare, Ephialtes, incubus, old man of the sea; remora.

Lateness

Verb: be late; Adjective: tarry, wait, stay, bide, take time; dawdle; (be inactive); linger, loiter; bide one's time, take one's time; gain time; hang fire; stand over, lie over.

Permanence

Verb: let alone, let be, let it be; persist, remain, stay, tarry, rest; stet; hold, hold on; last, endure, bide, abide, aby, dwell, maintain, keep; stand, stand still, stand fast; subsist, live, outlive, survive; hold one's ground, keep one's ground, hold one's footing, keep one's footing; hold good.

Presence

People; inhabit, dwell, reside, stay, sojourn, live, abide, lodge, nestle, roost, perch; take up one's abode; (be located); tenant.

Quiescence

Remain, stay; stand, lie to, ride at anchor, remain in situ, tarry, mark time; bring to, heave to, lay to; pull up, draw up; hold, halt; stop, stop short; rest, pause, anchor; cast to an anchor, come to an anchor; rest on one's oars; repose on one's laurels, take breath; stop; (discontinue).

Dwell; (be present); settle; (be located); alight; (arrive) stick, stick fast; stand like a post; not stir a peg, not stir a step; be at a stand; n. quell, becalm, hush, stay, lull to sleep, lay an embargo on.

Repose

Relaxation, breathing time; halt, stay, pause; (cessation); respite.

Support

Supporter; aid; prop, stand, anvil, fulciment; cue rest, jigger; monkey; stay, shore, skid, rib, truss, bandage; sleeper; stirrup, stilts, shoe, sole, heel, splint, lap, bar, rod, boom, sprit, outrigger; ratlings.

Crosswords: Stay

Pidgin English (to stay).

You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

It's cool, Troy, you can stay. Welcome to the maxi-pad (Reality Bites; writing credit: Ben Stiller, written by Helen Childress.)

What I want to know is how we're going to stay alive this winter (Doctor Zhivago; writing credit: Boris Pasternak; Robert Bolt)

Let's stay under cover (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein)

You mean I'm going to stay this color (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.)

Let's, let's stay together ("Let's Stay Together"; performing artist: Al Green)

Makes us want to stay, stay, stay for awhile (Stay (Wasting Time); performing artist: Dave Matthews Band)

Say you wanna stay the night (Stay The Night; performing artist: Imx)

And I hope you always stay the same, (Stay The Same; performing artist: Joey McIntyre)

You must of bet, I'm in here to stay (Get Ready For This; performing artist: 2 Unlimited)

Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. (references; author: Mark Twain)

A budget is something we go without to stay within. (references; author: unknown)

It is important to stay cool, but be sure to not get frostbite. (references; author: unknown)

If you do not want to reap the fruits of sin, stay out of the Devil's orchard. (references; author: unknown)

The love in your heart wasn't put there to stay. Love isn't love till you give it away. (references; author: unknown)

We're Here to Stay (1974)

Hitler Stay Away from My Door (1968)

No Reason to Stay (1966)

Stay Alive in the Summer Bush (1958)

You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)

Can't Stay Away From You (performing artist: Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine)

Stay The Night (performing artist: Imx)

He'll Have To Stay (performing artist: Jeanne Black)

Let's Stay Home Tonight (performing artist: Joe)

Stay The Same (performing artist: Joey McIntyre)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Extended Stay America Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Debt-Free Living: How to Get Out of Debt (And Stay Out (reference)

• You Can Afford to Stay Home With Your Kids: A Step-By-Step Guide for Converting Your Family from Two Incomes to One (You Can Afford to Stay Home with (reference)

• Runner's World Complete Book of Women's Running: The Best Advice to Get Started, Stay Motivated, Lose Weight, Run Injury-Free, Be Safe, and Train for (reference)

• Stay This Moment: The Photographs of Sam Abell (reference)

• The Power of Alignment: How Great Companies Stay Centered and Accomplish Extraordinary Things (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Hair To Stay (reference)

• Stay Free (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Run-D.M.C. - Let's Stay Together (Together Forever)/Rock Show (DVD Single) (reference)

• Stay Tuned (reference)

• Stay Away, Joe (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Stay What You Are (reference)

• Why Can't I Walk: Stay With Me (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Nancy Drew Stay Tuned for Danger Deluxe (reference)

• Nancy Drew: Stay Tuned for Danger (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Cubs stay with sedated polar bear - Ursus maritimus - mother during Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program studies. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

It sure is tough to stay dry with the tide coming in Base line measurement in southeast Alaska Party of C. G. Quillian. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Level party trying to stay warm in Washington Level party of Charles Pierce. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Oyster setting tanks at the University of Maryland Horn Point Environmental Laboratory on the Choptank River. Used by the Oyster Recovery Partnership, oyster larvae are placed in these tanks for two days, allowing them to set on shells where they stay and continue to grow for the rest of their lives. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Female Canada goose setting on nest. Trying desperately to stay out of sight. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Cigar's Marina offers fishermen a place to stay as well as go fishing. Credit: Fisheries.

Surface-supply and dive bells greatly extend the time divers could stay down. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Divers excurt (dive) from AQUARIUS. They can stay out for 9 hours per day. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Navy divers assisting in the placement of used tires as an alternate reef material on the artificial reef site at Pokai Bay, Oahu. The tires did not stay in place because of the strong surge of the large Pacific swells at the site. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Figure 37. Falconetti and Vaissiere turning net devised by Raymond Vaissiere and Claude Falconetti of the University of Nice in 1972. Top: the equipment. Bottom: in operating position. This net was designed to capture plankton and the larvae of benthic species at a small distance off the bottom. It was able to stay under water for prolonged periods and easy to use. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I think, Emma, I shall try and persuade her to stay longer with us.

We visit for a single day, And whether then we go, or stay, Depends on circumstances

I cannot rest, I cannot stay, I cannot linger anywhere

We would love to stay and help, shouted Ford, picking his way over the mangled debris, "only we're not going to."

You will stay there behind the lower door

I can enjoy her while she 's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes the wings and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away

So there was nothing for it only to stay the night or to foot it out.

Nay, I prithee, stay a little

I got to stay now.

The last of these voyages not proving very fortunate, I grew weary of the sea, and intended to stay at home with my wife and family

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Stay active—both physically and mentally. (references)

Stay indoors at dawn, dusk, and in the early evening. (references)

Or, you may be asked to stay in the hospital overnight. (references)

Business

In 1999, the average stay was 14.4 nights. (references)

Small and medium size agribusiness are fighting hard to stay afloat. (references)

However, according to ITA Tourism Industries, the average length of stay in 1999 was 12.8 nights. (references)

Children

Russia

These children stay in COVINA for no more than 30 days. (references)

Senegal

The Government continued to increase the number of classrooms and encourage more children, particularly females, to enter and stay in school. (references)

Ghana

The girl, who is known as a Trokosi or a Fiashidi, then becomes the property of the shrine god and the charge of the shrine priest for the duration of her stay. (references)

Civil Liberties

Vietnam

Holders of foreign passports in theory must register to stay in private homes. (references)

Cyprus

If applicants meet the criteria for refugee status, they are permitted to stay and are given temporary work permits. (references)

Switzerland

Refugees whose applications are rejected are allowed to stay temporarily if their home country is experiencing war or insurrection. (references)

Economic History

Chile

The internet is here to stay in Chile. (references)

Mexico

Of those, 82 percent stay in Tijuana and Rosarito and the rest go to Ensenada. (references)

Jordan

Without calm in the region, economic growth seems destined to stay below its potential. (references)

Human Rights

Djibouti

Children of female inmates under the age of 5 sometimes are allowed to stay with their mothers; authorities say that milk is provided for them. (references)

Russia

At year's end, Sutyagin remained in pretrial detention, and his lawyers had filed an appeal of the court's ruling that he stay in detention during the new investigation. (references)

Switzerland

In compensation the Government was required to pay $3,240 (5,347 Swiss francs) for costs and expenses related to the domestic proceedings; the Government allowed Boultif to stay in the country. (references)

Political Economy

Kenya

This group tends to stay out of politics and to operate behind the scenes. (references)

BANGLADESH

This statutory order is expected to stay in effect during fiscal year 2002. (references)

Sudan

Refugees could not become resident aliens or citizens, regardless of their length of stay in the country. (references)

Political Rights

Uganda

Byanyima petitioned the Mbarara High Court to stay the recount. (references)

Trade

Colombia

The equipment may stay in the country up to 90 days. (references)

Venezuela

Normally, temporary entry permits are granted for a maximum stay of up to six months. (references)

Travel

Thailand

The maximum stay is 90 days. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

Stay in well-lit areas as much as possible. (references)

Argentina

The permit authorizes a stay from one to three years. (references)

Women

Dominica

The organization permits persons to stay at the shelter for 3 weeks at a time. (references)

Turkey

The law allows women to apply for restraining orders against their husbands and therefore to stay in their own homes. (references)

Brazil

Women who consult the center about domestic violence can stay at women's shelters run by the city of Rio de Janeiro and a smaller town. (references)

Worker Rights

Italy

The legislation permits a temporary stay for victims, even if the victims refuse to file charges against their traffickers. (references)

Bulgaria

Victims routinely reported that traffickers took away their passports and visas, and forced them to stay illegally in countries. (references)

Netherlands

Victims are allowed 3 months to consider pressing charges, and victims who do so are allowed to stay in the country until the judicial process is completed. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "stay": back stay ♦ brief stay ♦ casement stay ♦ for short stay ♦ fortnight's stay ♦ Funnel stay ♦ i will stay one month ♦ i will stay only ♦ jack stay ♦ Length of Stay ♦ let stay up ♦ not to stay ♦ overnight stay ♦ place to stay ♦ Preventer stay ♦ put a stay on ♦ spring stay ♦ stay afloat ♦ stay alive ♦ stay around ♦ stay at ♦ stay at a hotel without paying ♦ stay at home ♦ stay at the back ♦ stay at the course ♦ stay awake ♦ stay awake till morning ♦ stay away ♦ stay away for ♦ stay away from ♦ stay behind ♦ stay behind force ♦ stay bolt ♦ stay busk ♦ stay calm ♦ stay clear ♦ stay close ♦ stay down ♦ stay faithful ♦ stay for supper ♦ stay fresh ♦ stay holes ♦ stay in ♦ stay in a hotel ♦ stay in bed ♦ stay in holy places ♦ stay in hospital ♦ stay in lane ♦ stay in place ♦ stay in power ♦ stay in the background ♦ stay in the way of ♦ stay in touch ♦ stay indoors ♦ stay of execution ♦ stay of proceedings ♦ stay off ♦ stay off work ♦ stay on ♦ stay one's hand ♦ stay one's stomach ♦ stay open ♦ stay out ♦ stay out all night ♦ stay over ♦ stay over christmas ♦ stay overnight ♦ stay put ♦ stay rod ♦ stay sleepless all night ♦ stay tackle ♦ stay the course ♦ stay the month out ♦ stay the same ♦ stay to dinner ♦ stay to supper ♦ stay together ♦ stay under water ♦ stay up ♦ stay up late ♦ stay with ♦ stay with friends ♦ stay with smb. ♦ stay with smb. for a while ♦ stay within ♦ terminate and Stay Resident ♦ To stay a mast ♦ Triatic stay. Additional references.

Beginning with "stay": stay-at-home, stay-at-homes, stay-awakes, stay-away, stay-behind, stay-bolt, stay-cool, stay-down strike, stay-in, stay-in strike, stay-in-touch, stay-lace, stay-maker, stay-makers, stay-on, stay-put, stay-sail, stay-slim, stay-true, stay-tus, stay-up, stay-warm, stay-well, stay-wet.

Ending with "stay": long-stay.

Containing "stay": let's-stay-poor-together, terminate-and-stay-resident, terminate-stay-resident.

Afrikaans

verblyf, bly (abide, be staying, glad, happy, remain, stay over), aanbly (abide, remain, stay over). (various references)

Albanian

rri (abide, bide, hang out, keep, perch, remain, reside, set, settle, stop), qëndroj (be, endure, fend, hold out, remain, set, settle, sit, stand, stop), qëndrim (attitude, bearing, carriage, concernment, continuance, deportment, footing, halt, indwelling, mien, notch, poise, port, pose, posture, stand, stop, waiting), qëndresë (endurance, fastness, fortitude, hardiness, lasting, resistance, stamina, stand, tolerance, toughness), pezullim (abeyance, arrest, cancel, cancellation, hold, layoff, reversal, suspense, suspension), pengesë (balk, bar, barrier, baulk, block, boom, chock, clog, cramp, crash barrier, cumber, detention, difficulty, dike, disadvantage, drag, drawback, encumbrance, fetter, handicap, hedge, hindrance, hitch, hold up, holdback, hurdle, impediment, interference, interruption, jamming, liability, manacle, mash, obstacle, obstruction, preclusion, pullback, retardation, retardment, rub, setback, stoppage, stumbling block, stumbling-stone, stunt, traverse, trip up), përmbaj (carry, check, choke, comprise, constrain, contain, control, Cork, detain, deter, embrace, feature, gulp, hold, hold back, hold in, include, incorporate, pocket, repress, restock, restrain), ndihmë (aid, assistance, backstop, bee, boon, charity, dole, endowment, facilitation, help, relief, subsidy, subvention, succor, succour, support), ndenjes, ndalim (arrest, attachment, ban, cessation, defence, detention, disallowance, embargo, Forbiddance, halt, inhibition, interdict, interdiction, juju, lid, negative, prohibition, stop, stoppage, stopping, taboo), ndal (arrest, becalm, check, close up, cut, discontinue, end, fight off, fold, halt, heave to, hold, interrupt, pull in, pull up, rein up, shut down, stem, stop), mbetem (abide, be left, become, fail, hang over, keep, linger, remain), durim (bearing, endurance, fitness, patience, sufferance, tolerance, toleration). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عطل (cancel, cripple, damage, deactivate, derange, disrupt, foul up, hold up, jam, obstruct, suspend), ‏ثبت (affirm, anchor, assure, aver, belay, belt, bend, bite, bolt, bolt on, brace, cable, catch, chock, confirm, corroborate, countersign, demonstrate, display, endure, establish, evince, fastening, fix, lash, last, pin down, plant, prove, reinforce, secure, set, spike, stabilize, steady, stick, strengthen, substantiate, testify, validate, verify, warrant), ‏ثبت بحبل, ‏أوقف (arrest, arrested, break, can, cease, challenge, check, choke, cut, cut out, discontinue, estop, garage, halt, hinder, intercept, kill, nick, nobble, obstruct, pull in, shut off, stand, stem, stop, turn off), ‏أقام (banquet, build, dwell, erect, establish, home, institute, live, locate, lodge, occupy, perch, reinstate, reside, roost, sojourn, tenant), ‏أنهى السباق, ‏أهدأ (calm, calm down, cool down, moderate, quiet, settle down), ‏إرجاء (postponement, reprieve, respite, suspension), ‏إحتمال (chance, contingency, endurance, eventuality, expectation, feasibility, likelihood, probability, prospect, sufferance, toleration, verisimilitude), ‏إقامة (indwelling, institution, lodging), ‏إنتظر (await, bide, hang on, stand in, wait, wait for, watch), ‏بقي (abide, be, bide, continue, endure, exist, remain, reside, rest, sit, stick around, stop, subsist, sustain, tarry), ‏صد (alienation, baffle, balk, baulk, bear down, beat, beat off, blast, estop, estoppel, exclusion, fend, fend off, fight off, hit, hit back, hold off, jolt, kick, negative, parry, poach, push, push aside, push back, quash, rebuff, repel, repudiate, repulse, repulsion, return, riposte, snub, spurn, stamp down, stave, stay away, stem, throwback, toss, turn away, ward, ward off), ‏مكث (dwell in, live in, remain, reside in, stick on), ‏سلسلة (catena, chain, concatenation, fall, leash, round, series, spectrum, string, train), ‏سكن (alleviate, appease, assuage, attemper, calm, cool, dwell, dwelling, dwelt, ease, fall, gentle, habitation, hostel, house, hut, kill, live, lodging, lull, occupy, pacify, palliate, place, qualify, quarters, quiet, quieten, remit, repose, residence, salve, set together, settle, solace, soothe, still, supple, tenant), ‏تعليق (abeyance, attachment, comment, commentary, gloss, quote, remark, suspense, suspension, time out), ‏توقف (break off, breakdown, come to a halt, cut off, demise, discontinue, end, halt, hinge, hitch, lapse, layover, let up, letup, obstruction, pass by, pause, pull up, quit, rest, run down, setback, stall, stand, stop, stop over, stoppage, stopping, touch), ‏حبل الدعم, ‏واصل (carry on, continue, follow in his footsteps, gear, go on, hold on, keep, persist, press, proceed, pursue, push, push along, push on, roll on, stick to smth., sustain), ‏وقف تنفيذ, ‏قدرة على الإحتمال (endurance, wear), ‏نزل في فندق, ‏هدأ (allay, appease, assuage, attemper, becalm, calm, calm down, cool, die down, dust, ease, hush, keep quiet, lull, moderate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, quench, quieten, relieve, rest, salve, settle, settle down, simmer, smooth, sober, soothe, steady, still, subside, supple, sweeten, tranquillize), ‏مقام مزار (shrine), ‏إيقاف (arrest, interception, stopping). (various references)

Aymara

qheparaña (to stay). (various references)

Breton

chomot (will you stay). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отлагане (deferment, delay, lay over, postponement, precipitation, procrastination, put off), издръжливост (bottom, endurance, guts, mettle, patience, reliability, resistance, sand, sinews, staying power, strength, tenacity, tensility, toughness, vitality, wear), пребиваване (abidance, residence), прекарване (conveyance), прекратявам (cease, discontinue, dismiss, stash, stop, surcease, suspend), пречка (bit, block, blockage, check, clog, cross, difficulty, disadvantage, disqualification, embarrassment, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, holdback, hurdle, impediment, kibosh, let, liability, manacle, obstacle, preclusion, pull back, remora, rub, setback, spoke, stop, stumbling-stone, traverse), престой (abidance, continuance, dead time, downtime, idle time, lay over, outage, residence, stopover), банел, залъгвам (cheat, put off, string along, trepan), не бързам (take it easy, take one's time), държа се докрай, отлагам (carry over, defer, delay, drive, hold over, lay over, leave over, lie over, postpone, precipitate, procrastinate, prorogue, put back, put off, put over, respite, scrub, shelve, shunt, sidetrack, suspend), стоя (abide, keep, remain, sit, sit up, stand, stick, tarry), отсядам (put up, stop), отсядане, оставам (abide, continue, endure, let, persist, remain, remain behind, stay behind, stick, void), въздържаност (demureness, inaccessibility, moderation, self restraint, temperance), възпирам (control, debar, deter, enchain, interdict, prohibit, repress, restrain, retain, swaddle), възспиране, щаг, спирам се (determine, draw bit, dwell on, enlarge, jib, pull up, repose, rest, stand, stop), спиране (arrest, blocking, braking, catch, cease, cessation, discontinuance, dwell, halt, hold up, holdback, interruption, letup, prevention, retention, snub, stand, standstill, stop, stopping, tie up), опора (abut, anchor, anchorage, backlog, bearer, bulwark, buttress, column, cradle, crutch, dependence, faith, foothold, holder, jamb, lodgement, lodgment, mainstay, palladium, pillar, prop, purchase, rampart, rest, rock, roothold, sinews, staff, stand by, stock, stronghold, support, tower, underpinning). (various references)

Chinese 

獃 (stupid), 待 (about, deal with, delay, intending to do something, need, treat, wait), 延緩 (defer), 呆 (foolish, no expression, stupid), 下塌 (stays). (various references)

Cornish

tryga (to stay). (various references)

Croatian

ostati, ostat. (various references)

Czech

zdržet se (abstain, forbear, hold in, refrain), zastavit (arrest, call a halt, call off, cease, check, discontinue, draw up, halt, hock, immobilize, pawn, pull back, put in, quit, stem, stop, suspend, tackle), zastavení (cessation, discontinuance, halt, let up, pull back, stand, stillstand, stop, suspension, tackle), zùstat (be, remain, rest), zůstat, vydržet (bear, endure, hold on, hold out, last, spin out, stand, stick it out, stomach, sustain, take, tolerate, undergo, withstand), utišit (allay, appease, assuage, becalm, ease, hush, pacify, quiet down, quieten, relieve, rest, silence, sooth, tranquillize), pobyt (visit), pobývat (sojourn), přebývat (dwell, indwell, reside), odložit (abort, adjourn, cast aside, cast off, defer, delay, discard, doff, get off, hang out, hold over, lay aside, lay by, Park, postpone, put aside, put away, put off, recess, reprieve, suspend, take off, throw away). (various references)

Danish

ophold (accommodation, halt, stop), forblive (abide, remain, stay over). (various references)

Dutch

logeren (be a guest of, be on a visit, stay with, stop). (various references)

Esperanto

resti (remain, stay over), restado, gastloĝi (be on a visit, stop). (various references)

Estonian

jääda (to stay). (various references)

Faeroese

steðga (abide, cease, come to a halt, halt, remain, stagnate, stay over, stop), verða verandi (abide, remain, stay over), vera eftir (abide, remain, stay over). (various references)

Farsi 

مهار (Halter), مکث (Breather, Halt, Letup, Pause, Period), مانع (Balk, Bar, Barricade, Brake, Crimp, Dike, Drawback, Embargo, Encumbrance, Handicap, Hedge, Hinder, Hindrance, Hitch, Hurdle, Impediment, Let, Lock, Obstacle, Preventive, Repellent, Setback, Shackle, Snag), ماندن (Abide, Be, Lie, Remain, Settle, Stall, Stand, Subsist), نقطه اتکاء (Mainstay, Pivot), نگاه داشتن (Commemorate, Guard, Hold, Keep, Refrain, Retain, Save, Stop, Tackle), حاءل (Buffer, Buttress, Guard, Louver, Prop, Shutter, Stanchion), تکیه (Emphasis, Loll, Reliance), توقفگاه , توقف کردن (Stand, Stop), توقف (Cease, Cessation, Close, Pause, Stop, Suspension, Syncope), سکون (Equilibrium, Inaction, Inertia, Lull, Quiet, Slack, Station), عصاء , ایست (Caesura, Cease, Cessation, Close, Halt, Interval, Period, Standstill, Stoppage, Suspension), بازداشتن (Arrest, Bar, Bloc, Block, Contain, Debar, Detain, Deter, Encumber, Impede, Interdict, Prevent, Stow). (various references)

Finnish

jäädä (abide, remain, stay over, stop). (various references)

Flemish

blijven. (various references)

French

séjour, rester (stay over, stick, stick around, stop, to stay), hauban (stay rope, stay wire, steel wire stay), étai (stock, strut). (various references)

French Canadian

rester (to stay). (various references)

Frisian

ferbliuw. (various references)

German

bleiben (abide, abode, be left, bide, dwell, keep, linger, remain, stay over, Tarry, to remain, to rest), Aufenthalt (abidance, abode, delay, domicile, dwelling, inhabitancy, inhabitation, layover, place of residence, residence, sojourn, stop, visit, wait), stag. (various references)

Greek 

στήριγμα (abutment, bearer, bearing, brace, cleat, foothold, prop, purchase, rest, stanchion, stays, support), μένω (abide, keep, live, remain, stop), διαμονή (abode, domicile, residence, residency, staying). (various references)

Guarani

opytáta (he will stay). (various references)

Haitian Creole

rete. (various references)

Hebrew 

משען (abutment, anchor, brace, buttress, prop, rest, staff, support), לתמוך (advocate, back, brace, buttress, champion, maintain, stand by, support, sustain, take sides), לשהות (abide, linger, pause, sojourn), להתאכסן (board), להשאר (abide, be left over, bide, remain, rest), שהיה (delay, sojourning, staying), שהות (leisure, pause, time), עוגן (anchor, guy), עצר (restraint, stop, stoppage), סמוך (brace), סמוכה (strut, support). (various references)

Hungarian

tartóztatás, tartózkodik (abide, beware, dwell, sat, to abide, to eschew, to hold back, to inhabit, to live, to make a stay, to sit, to sojourn), tartózkodás (abidance, abstention, abstinence, aloofness, being, constraint, coyness, discretion, dwell, dwelling, residence, residency, restraint, reticence, self-restraint, shyness, sojourn, standoff, staying, stopover), támasz (bay, bearer, buttress, help, prop, purchase, shoulder, staff, stanchion, steady, strut, succour, support, supporter), megállít (abort, arrest, back-stop, halt, pull up, rein in, stop, to arrest, to check, to fetch up, to hold up, to pull up, to put to a stand, to rein in), marad (dwelt, remain, Tarry, to abide, to dwell, to keep within doors, to lie off, to linger, to remain, to rest, to sail near to wind), idõzés, felfüggesztés (adjournment, break, hanging, suspense, suspension), elhalasztás (adjournment, deferment, postponement, suspension), árbocmerevítő kötél, állóképesség (endurance, fitness, stamina). (various references)

Icelandic

gista (stay overnight). (various references)

Indonesian

tinggal (abide), bubut (coucal, lathe, pull up), betah (feel at home, feel like home), bertengger (be perched on a branch, roost, settle down). (various references)

Irish

fhanann, fanann. (various references)

Italian

stare (abide, be, be up, do, dwell, exist, go, lie, life, lifetime, live, remain, rest, sit, stand, stay over), rimanere (abide, be, be left, bleiben, keep, lie, remain, rest, stay here, stay on, stay over, Tarry), restare (abide, be left, keep, lie, remain, rest, stand, stay over, stick around), strallo (stay rope, stay wire, steel wire stay, wire back-tie), soggiorno (abode, living room, residence, residency, sitting room, sojourn), dimora (abode, court, dwelling, home, homesite, house, mansion, residence, residency, sojourn). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

駐在 (residence), 滞在 (sojourn). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たいざい (sojourn), しさく (composition of a poem, experiment, measure, meditation, policy, speculation, thinking, trial manufacture), ざいりゅう (remain, reside), ささえ (prop, support), さつ (butcher, counter for books, diminish, kill, murder, note, paper money, police, reduce, remain, slice off, split, spoil, temple, volume), とまり (anchorage, end, night duty, stop, stopover, stoppage), ちゅうざい (residence). (various references)

Korean 

체재 (format, Staying, stays). (various references)

Luxembourgish

bleiwen. (various references)

Malagasy

tafandria (stay over night), fitsidihana. (various references)

Manx

tannaghtyn (abide, abiding, bide, dwell, endure, hold up, lodge, remain, run on; continuance; remanent, stop, survive, tarry), staiy (stay-rod), stad (arrest, intermission, pull up, stage, stand, standstill, station, stationary, stop, stop point, stop sign, stoppage, stopping place), lhiettalys (check, clogging, constriction, counteraction, discouragement, embargo, hindrance, hitch, impedance, inhibition, interception, let, obstruction, prevention, restraint, restriction, stoppage), furriaght, fuirraghtyn (stand by, tarry, wait), farkaght (pause, wait), farkaghey (wait), fariagh, cur staiy rish, corsad, bac (balk, disability, disqualification, drawback, handicap, moratorium, objection, obstacle, pull back, snag, trap). (various references)

Maori

noho-ia (to stay). (various references)

Norwegian

bli (be, become, come about, get, grow, happen). (various references)

Papiamen

keda (abide, remain, stay over), estadía. (various references)

Pidgin English

stay (to stay). (various references)

Pig Latin

aystay.(various references)

Polish

zostawać (abide, remain, stay over), pobyt. (various references)

Portuguese

ficar (be, beseem, bide, come, continue, go, grow, keep, lie, recline, remain, sojourn, stay over, tarry, to get, to stay), estada (ride), suspensão (adjournment, arrest, discontinuance, intermission, interruption, pause, recess, stop, suspense, suspension, uncertainty), permanecer (abide, continue, dwell, endure, hold, keep, keep on, last, live, persist, remain, stay over, tarry), estai (stud), estadia (abode), escora (anchor, bearer, bond, brace, chock, prop, puncheon, spur, stanchion). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

estadia. (various references)

Quechua

qhepakunqa (she will stay). (various references)

Romanian

sta (abide, be, keep, lie, live, remain, sit, stand, stay over, stop, Tarry). (various references)

Romany

teryava (to stay). (various references)

Russian 

оставаться (hold itself out as, persist, remain, stay in, stay over, stayed, stays, stop on). (various references)

Scottish

fuirich (abide, remain, stay over), fan (abide, remain, stay over). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zadržavanje (delay, detention, hold, reservation, retention, set back, setback), veza (bond, bracing, bunch, clip, communication, connection, contact, copula, fastener, fastening, liaison, ligament, link, nexus, rapport, relation, tie, touch, union), utoliti (pacify, quench, satisfy, slake), pričvrstiti (affix, attach, fasten, hitch, moor, nail, seal), potpora (backing, brace, buttress, falsework, help, prop, support, sustenance, sustention, trestle), podupreti (bolster, brace, buttress, prop up, shore, shore up, support, truss, underlay, underpin), podupirač (brace, bracket, buttress, shore, spur, stanchion, strut, support, truss, underlay), ostati (bide, left, remain), odsesti, odložiti (adjourn, carry over, defer, delay, lay aside, postpone, put off, remit, reprieve, reserve, respite, retard, table), odlaganje (adjournment, deferment, let alone, postponement), boraviti (sojourn, tarry), boravak (sojourn, stop). (various references)

Sicilian

stari (to stay). (various references)

Slovene

ostali. (various references)

Somali

joogaysaa. (various references)

Sotho

sala (follow). (various references)

Spanish

quedarse (abide, become, come out, hang on, keep, Lodge, remain, sit, stay behind, stay over, stick around, stop behind, take, Tarry, wait behind, wait out), quedar (abide, agree, be situated, come off, come up, drop, fall on, fall upon, jack in, keep, lead off, leave, leave off, leave over, let into, line out, meet, remain, rest, stick around, take away, take from, take off, take out, take up, tear down, throw aside, throw down, throw off, throw over, throw up, trail, trim away, trim off, weaken, wind), estancia (abode, cattle ranch, country estate, dwelling, farm, imprisonment, living room, lounge, ranch, residence, residency, small farm, sojourn, stanza, stop), suspensión (abeyance, adjournment, cessation, recess, reprieve, stopping, suspension), restar (abide, deduct, receive, remain, return, stay over, subtract, take away, take from, take off, throw back), alojarse (be a guest of, be on a visit, Lodge, quarter, stay with, stop). (various references)

Sranan

tan (abide, remain, stay over), fika (abide, remain, stay over). (various references)

Swahili

utakaa (you will stay). (various references)

Swazi

kú-sála (to stay). (various references)

Swedish

stanna (abide, coagulate, come to, come to a halt, come to rest, draw up, halt, remain, stand, stay over, stay put, stop, Tarry, wait), vistelse (abode, residence, sojourn, visit), uppehåll (break, intermission, interruption, interval, pause, recess, sojourn, stop), stag (guy, strut). (various references)

Tagalog

titigil (will stay). (various references)

Tahitian

fa'aea. (various references)

Tswana

sala, nna (would), bonno. (various references)

Turkish

sabitlemek (fasten, fasten up, immobilize), erteleme (adjournment, continuance, delay, holdover, postponement, procrastination, putoff, respite, retardation, suspense, suspension), alıkoyma (constraint, detention, interception, preclusion, retardation, retention, stoppage), alıkoymak (check, constrain, deforce, delay, detain, disable, hinder, hold, hold up, incapacitate, intercept, keep, keep from, keep in, preclude, restrain, retain, retard, stick, stop, withhold), bırakmamak (hold on to, keep at, keep at smb., keep hold of, not to leave, not to let go, stand to, stick, stick to), beklemek (abide, anticipate, await, bargain for, bide, expect, hang about, hang around, hang on, have smth. in prospect, hold on, hope, look for, look forward to, mark time, stand by, Tarry, wait, wait for, watch), dayanma (endurance, lean, osculation, resistance, resting, stand, sufferance, tolerance, wear), dayanmak (abut, be based on, be predicated on, bear up, bear up against, bear with, Brook, consist, endure, found, go on, ground, hang, hang on, hinge on, hold, hold on, hold one's own, hold out, hold up, last, lean, lean upon, offer resistance, osculate, put up with, rely on, rely upon, repose, repose on, resist, rest, rest against, root in, stand, stand on, stand the racket, stand up, stand upon, stick, stick it, stick out, survive, sweat out, take, take it, thole, tolerate, trace, wear, withstand), destek (aid, anchorage, assistance, backing, backup, bolster, booster, brace, bracer, bracket, buttress, contribution, cooperation, corbel, countenance, crutch, endorsement, friend, indorsement, mounting, pillar, pit prop, prop, reinforcement, relief, rest, rider, second, shore, shot, sponsorship, spur, staff, stake, stanchion, stand by, stiffening, strut, support, supporter, supporting, sustenance, truss, underlay, upholder), destekçi (backer, nurse, outwork, promoter, supporter), durdurmak (abort, arrest, baulk, block, bring short, call a halt, call off, cease, check, choke back, choke down, choke off, collar, Crimp, deactivate, discontinue, draw up, give over, halt, hold back, hold up, intercept, intermit, jam, jugulate, lock, paralyse, paralyze, pull in, pull up, put a stop to, shut off, stanch, staunch, stem, still, stop, Stow, suppress, suspend), durma (cessation, full stop, go ahead, halt, pause, pose, standstill, stop, stoppage, tie up), önlemek (arrest, avert, avoid, baffle, bank, circumvent, counterwork, estop, face up to, foil, foreclose, forestall, frustrate, get under control, head off, intercept, jugulate, keep back, obviate, occlude, preclude, prevent, prevent from, prohibit, repress, suppress, thwart, ward, ward off), engel (balk, bar, barrage, barricade, barrier, baulk, block, check, clog, countercheck, counterwork, cramp, Crimp, dam, determent, difficulty, discouragement, disincentive, drag, drawback, encumbrance, entanglement, fence, handicap, hedge, hindrance, hobble, hold up, holdback, hurdle, impediment, interference, let, obstacle, obstruction, restraint, retardation, rub, shackles, slashing, snag, stick, stop, stumbling block, supersedeas, tie, trammel), ziyaret (call, visit, visitation, visiting), ertelemek (adjourn, carry over, continue, defer, delay, hang up, hold off, hold over, lay aside, lay by, lay over, leave over, postpone, procrastinate, put off, reprieve, reserve, respite, scrub, shelve, sidetrack, suspend, table, waive), gergi (rack, spreader, stretcher, tenter), germek (bag, distend, draw, hang on, lift, rack, span, sprawl out, strain, stretch, stretch out, string, tauten, tense, tighten, tighten up), ikamet (dwelling, habitation, residing), ikamet etmek (dwell in, hang out, indwell, inhabit, reside), istralya, kalma (arrearage, flunk, remaining, staying, survival), kalmak (abide, be left, be left over, bed, come to, continue, devolve, fail, flunk, keep, keep to, leave, put up, refuge, remain, rest with, room, sleep, stand, stop, survive, Tarry, wait), oturma (fit, habitation, inhabitation, living, occupancy, occupation, residence, sitting, staying), oyalanmak (amuse oneself, be amused, be pleased with, dally, delay, dilly dally, disport oneself, fool, fool about, fool around, footle, fribble, frivol, hang out, linger, loiter, mess around, monkey around, piddle, play around, Potter, potter about, potter at, procrastinate, Tarry, trifle, trifle with, waste time), durmak (be, cease, come to a halt, come to a stop, discontinue, draw rein, draw up, endure, halt, harp, hold, hold on, intermit, keep, let up, linger, pack up, pull in, pull up, remain, rest, run down, stall, stand, stop). (various references)

Ukrainian

стримувати (abate, bound, bridle, chasten, check, coerce, constrain, contain, control, curb, deter, dominate, hold in, inhibit, moderate, pocket, rein, restrain, stop, suppress, swaddle, swallow, temper), витривалість (bottom, durability, endurance, hardiness, lasting, persistence), опора (anchorage, anchorage-ground, backing, bearer, buttress, cradle, crutch, footing, holdfast, pillar, reliance, steady, stilt, stock, support, tower), зупинятися (alight, bait, draw up, pause, put in, run down, stanch, stand still, stop), затримка (arrest, backing, back-set, balk, check, delay, hold back, impediment, objection, retardment, retention, setback, throw back), залишатися (be, bide, keep, leave, lie, persist, remain, sit, stop behind, stop on), баритися (back pedal, balance, delay, dilly dally, linger, procrastinate), перебування (abidance, being, biding, postposition). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự trở ngại sự chịu đựng, sự trở lại (relapse, return), sự lưu lại sự đình lại, sự hoãn lại sự ngăn cản, sự dẻo dai chỗ nương tựa, sự bền bỉ, khả năng chịu đựng (stamina). (various references)

Welsh

aros (abide, await, bide, come to a halt, halt, remain, stop, tarry, wait). (various references)

Xhosa

sala. (various references)

Yucatec

p'atal (abide, remain, stay over). (various references)

Zulu

sala (abide, remain, stay over), -hlala (abide, remain, sit, stay over). (various references)

comitabantur, comitari, comitati, comitatu, comitatur, comitatus, comitetur, commorabitur, commorabuntur, commorantem, commorantes, commorantium, commorantur, commorari, commorata, commoratae, commorati, commoratio, commoratione, commorationibus, commoratique, commoratus, commoremur, commorer, commoror, consederant, consedere, consederunt, consedit, conside, considerant, consideras, considerat, consideremus, considerent, consideres, consideret, considero, considunt, consistant, consistens, consistentes, consistere, consisteret, consistite, consisto, consistunt, constiterant, habita, habitabamus, habitabant, habitabantur, habitabat, habitabatis, habitabatque, habitabatur, habitaberis, habitabimus, habitabis, habitabisque, habitabit, habitabitis, habitabitur, habitabo, habitabunt, habitabuntur, habitamus, habitandam, habitandi, habitando, habitandum, habitans, habitant, habitantem, habitantes, habitantesque, habitanti, habitantibus, habitantium, habitantur, habitare, habitarent, habitaret, habitaretis, habitaretque, habitaretur, habitari, habitas, habitasses, habitasti, habitastis, habitat, habitate, habitatis, habitator, habitatorum, habitatricem, habitatrix, habitatur, habitaturi, habitaturus, habitaverim, habitaverimus, habitaverint, habitaveris, habitaverisque, habitaverit, habitavero, habitaverunt, habitaveruntque, habitavi, habitavimus, habitavit, habitavitque, habitem, habitent, habiteris, habites, habitet, habitetis, habitetur, habito, hospitandi, hospitaremur, hospitatur, hospitatus, maneo, morabantur, morabatur, morabitur, morabor, morabuntur, moramini, morante, morantur, moraremur, morarentur, moraretur, moraris, morata, morati, moratur, moratus, moremini, morere, moreris, moria, palus, remaneo, resederant, resedit, reside, residebant, residebit, residens, resident, residentes, residentibus, residere, se teneo, stabilimentum, stare. (various references)

estaie. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "stay": stayed, stayer, stayers, staying, stays, staysail, staysails. (additional references)

Words ending with "stay": backstay, bobstay, forestay, headstay, homestay, jackstay, mainstay, outstay, overstay. (additional references)

Words containing "stay": backstays, bobstays, forestays, forestaysail, forestaysails, headstays, homestays, jackstays, mainstays, outstayed, outstaying, outstays, overstayed, overstaying, overstays, unstayed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stay" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: estacy, Estay, Estoy, Itaya, otay, satay, satie, satway, saty, Sayf, sayy, soay, sqay, sta, staig, staq, stary, stasy, stau, stax, stayr, staz, stda, stei, Steny, stewy, stiky, stiy, stoai, stoi, stovy, stry, stui, stuy, styb, styc, styf, styg, stym, tay, tsai, Ts'ao, Ystad. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ays, sat, say, sty, tas.

-2 letters: as, at, ay, ta, ya.

+1 letter: antsy, artsy, hasty, kyats, mayst, nasty, pasty, patsy, salty, satay, satyr, sayst, slaty, stagy, stays, stray, tansy, tasty, trays, vasty, yeast.

+2 letters: astony, astray, blasty, bypast, dynast, estray, gayest, lastly, lysate, lyttas, mateys, mayest, pastry, platys, safety, sanity, satays, satiny, satyrs, sayest, scanty, scatty, shanty, slanty, slatey, smarty, stably, stagey, staggy, stalky, starry, stayed, stayer, steady, steamy, strawy, strays, stylar, styrax, swarty, sweaty, syntax, thuyas, toasty, todays, tokays, trashy, vastly, wastry, yachts, yarest, yeasts, yeasty, yentas.