Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A vacation in which one does not travel away from home.
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- noun neologism A
vacation spent close to home. - verb neologism, intransitive To spend a
vacation close to home.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Wikipedia defines the word staycation as a neologism for a period of time in which an individual or family stays at home and relaxes at home or takes day trips from their home to area attractions.
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Now I know the word staycation sounds like someone with a lisp trying to buy a Playstation, but it's the in-thing.
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Now I know the word staycation sounds like someone with a lisp trying to buy a Playstation, but it's the in-thing.
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Now I know the word staycation sounds like someone with a lisp trying to buy a Playstation, but it's the in-thing.
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Now I know the word staycation sounds like someone with a lisp trying to buy a Playstation, but it's the in-thing.
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Now I know the word staycation sounds like someone with a lisp trying to buy a Playstation, but it's the in-thing.
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Now I know the word staycation sounds like someone with a lisp trying to buy a Playstation, but it's the in-thing.
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When the economy improves I hope the silly term staycation is the first casualty.
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July 9/PRNewswire/-- Hardworking word-lovers everywhere can now learn the meaning of the word staycation ( "a vacation spent at home or nearby") along with nearly 100 other new words and
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Salon. com published an article by Billy Frolick that captures the ambivalence that many people feel about the word staycation as a euphemism for "too broke to go anywhere."
super-julia commented on the word staycation
UGH. is this even for real..?
May 13, 2008
yarb commented on the word staycation
Ghastly.
May 13, 2008
oroboros commented on the word staycation
We're going to see a lot more of this word with $5.00 gas!
July 7, 2008
john commented on the word staycation
"And he certainly would not have thought of a “journey�? as a simple weekend jaunt across town, or merely across the living room, in the form of a pseudo-respite known as a “staycation�? (formerly known as “staying home�?)."
The New York Times, Pfffffffffft! There Goes the Vacation, by Alex Williams, July 20, 2008
August 1, 2008
trivet commented on the word staycation
What yarb said. We have an extraordinarily annoying and overplayed radio thingie about staycations that stalks my sanity. Gah!
August 1, 2008
The_Word_Guy commented on the word staycation
1. A stay-at-home vacation. A portmanteau word derived from "stay" and "vacation." Coined in 2003 in an article in Myrtle Beach's "The Sun News" newspaper.
June 29, 2009