homestayn.
/ˈhəʊmsteɪ/, U.S. /ˈhoʊmˌsteɪ/ 1. Usually in form home stay. The state or a period of being or remaining at home.
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1655 E. Waterhouse in E. Terry Voy. E.-India sig. A7 On [i.e. One] wedg'd is to the gain of homestayes; when Another counts his home a Lazers Denn. A third man proves so actiue that he knows No bounds.
1879 T. S. Andrews Ira Andrews & Ann Hopkinson xi. 82 Long the homestay of my parents in their old age.
1903 Trenton (New Jersey) Times 11 July 1/4 All of the trio are old friends of the President and are usually his guests once or twice during his summer home stay.
1909 R. W. Lardner in D. Elder Ring Lardner (1956) ii. 73 On May eleventh, home stay's ceased, I will have started for the east.
1931 Times 8 Aug. 7/6 A short home stay will be given to the turnover draft from the 2nd to the 1st Battalion.
1970 R. Tucker & F. R. Barkley Sons of Wild Jackass xvi. 383 His colleagues pay tribute to his conscientiousness by entrusting guardianship of personal measures to him when golf, poker or the home stay of the Washington Baseball Club necessitate their absence from the House.
2. Originally U.S. A period spent abroad for the purpose of business or study, during which the visitor lives with a local family in their home. Also: tourist or business accommodation provided in a person's home, frequently on a bed and breakfast basis.
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1952 Holland (Mich.) Evening Sentinel 4 Sept. 8/4 This homestay month gives experimenters an opportunity to get to know another country through person-to-person contacts and to make friends of ‘foreigners’.
1957 E. M. Eaton in Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 41 330/1 The homestay is the heart of the Experiment program. Carefully selected young Americans..go abroad in groups of ten... Upon arrival.., group members live in separate homes as members of families within a given community for a period of one month.
1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 1 Aug. b5 You may offer hospitality [to an international student] for a single meal, a short- or long-term homestay, or even a school-term residency.
1988 Travelling Spring 19/1 Meeting the locals adds meaning to any journey, and one of the best ways to do this in New Zealand is through a homestay or farmstay program.
2003 E. Hunt & N. Keller Rarotonga & Cook Islands (ed. 5) 153/1 There's no organised accommodation on Pukapuka. You might be able to arrange a homestay with a local family; contact the island council to sort it out.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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