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The hardest four-letter word, because leaving needs courage but staying needs faith.
means To remain in a place, condition, or relationship rather than leaving or changing, or to pause and hold steady.
from From Old English and Old French roots that flowed into Middle English: the sense of remaining and pausing traces through Old French 'estai-,' from Latin 'stare,' to stand — a deep family that also gives us 'stand,' 'stable,' and 'state.' A separate but tangled thread, 'stay' meaning a support or prop (as in the stays of a ship or a corset), comes from a Germanic word for something that holds firm. Both senses circle the same idea: to stand fast, to hold one's ground.
- dog command
- Asks an animal to defy its every instinct
- hotel term
- Your whole life rented by the night
- legal sense
- A judge can freeze time itself
- plea
- Whispered to lovers and dying days alike
staying alive bee gees — 1977 song that became the definitive disco anthem, reaching #1 on billboard hot 100
stay-at-home mom movement — cultural shift starting in 1980s america where women chose household labor over workforce participation