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stay

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stay is one of the 1000 most common headwords.
station - stay - step

Pronunciation

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Verb

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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

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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.
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