homestay

US/ˈhoʊmˌsteɪ/

nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written

Other forms: homestays

A homestay is staying as a guest in a local family's house. Arrange a homestay.

It teaches a language faster than any class, since nothing can be avoided. A homestay is the commonest arrangement for students on a language course abroad.

Definitions of homestay

1nounhomestayStaying as a guest in a local family's house.B2
“The homestay lasted a month and the friendship lasted thirty years.”

homestay is an arrangement.

Where it comes from

Home plus stay; the word came back into English partly through Japanese, where it names the same arrangement.

Japanese
ホームステイ
English, today
homestay

From home + stay, nowadays a reborrowing from Japanese ホームステイ.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Hotel & Staying Away

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homestay in the wild

Hospitality Club (HC) was a hospitality exchange service (a gift economy network for finding homestays whereby hosts were not allowed to charge for lodging) accessible via a website.
Hospitality Club
CouchSurfing is a hospitality exchange service by which users can request free short-term homestays or interact with other people who are interested in travel.
CouchSurfing
In addition to fishing and general tourism activities, the village runs a homestay programme.
Patau-Patau
Social networking services where hosts offer homestays for free are called hospitality exchange services.
Homestay
On 28 July 2012, activists belonging to the Hindu Jagarana Vedike affiliated with the Sangh Parivar, allegedly attacked a birthday party at an unlicensed homestay in Mangalore, Karnataka.
2012 Mangalore homestay attack

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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