staycation (plural staycations)
(informal) A vacation spent at or close to home. [from mid 20th c.]
Synonyms: homecation, staycay (rare)
(Britain) A holiday spent in one's own country without travelling abroad.
(US) A vacation spent at one's own home without other overnight accommodation.
• nearcation
staycation (third-person singular simple present staycations, present participle staycationing, simple past and past participle staycationed)
(intransitive, informal) To spend a vacation at or close to home.
Synonym: staycate
(Britain) To take a holiday in one's own country as opposed to travelling abroad.
(US) To spend a vacation at one's own home without other overnight accommodation.
Source: Wiktionary
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
