Usually means: Remain in a specific place.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. stay: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. stay, stay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stay, stay, stay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. stay: Collins English Dictionary
  5. stay: Vocabulary.com
  6. Stay, stay: Wordnik
  7. stay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Stay: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Stay, stay: Wiktionary
  10. stay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stay: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. stay: Dictionary.com
  14. stay (n.1), stay (n.2), stay (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. stay: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Stay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. stay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. stay: Rhymezone
  20. stay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. stay: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. stay: Free Dictionary
  23. stay: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. stay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. stay: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. stay: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. stay: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. stay: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Stay (film), Stay (song), stay: Legal dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stay (film), Stay (song), stay: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Stay (film), Stay (song), stay: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. STAY: Acronym Finder
  2. stay: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stay, stay: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. stay: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stay: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Stay: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See staid as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
verb:  (intransitive, copulative) To continue to have a particular quality.
verb:  (transitive) To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
verb:  (transitive) To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
verb:  (transitive) To stop or delay something.
verb:  To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
verb:  To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
verb:  To cause to cease; to put an end to.
verb:  To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
verb:  (transitive) To hold the attention of.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To bear up under; to endure; to hold out against; to resist.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To wait for; await.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To remain for the purpose of; to stay to take part in or be present at (a meal, ceremony etc.).
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To rest; depend; rely.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To stop; come to a stand or standstill.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To come to an end; cease.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To dwell; linger; tarry; wait.
verb:  (intransitive, dated) To make a stand; to stand firm.
verb:  (intransitive) To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To wait; rest in patience or expectation.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete, used with on or upon) To wait as an attendant; give ceremonious or submissive attendance.
verb:  (intransitive, Scotland, South Africa, India, Southern US, African-American Vernacular, Singapore, colloquial) To live; reside.
noun:  Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
noun:  (law) A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
noun:  (archaic) A stop; a halt; a break or cessation of action, motion, or progress.
noun:  A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
noun:  (nautical) A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
noun:  Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
noun:  (obsolete) Hindrance; let; check.
noun:  A prop; a support.
noun:  A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
noun:  (in the plural) A corset.
noun:  (archaic) A fastening for a garment; a hook; a clasp; anything to hang another thing on.
noun:  (nautical) A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
noun:  A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
noun:  The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
verb:  To brace or support with a stay or stays
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To tack; put on the other tack.
verb:  (intransitive, nautical) To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
adjective:  (UK dialectal) Steep; ascending.
adjective:  (UK dialectal) (of a roof) Steeply pitched.
adjective:  (UK dialectal) Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.
adjective:  (UK dialectal) Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.
adverb:  (UK dialectal) Steeply.
noun:  A surname.

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