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empty nester

or 𳾱t-Աİ

noun

  1. a parent whose children have reached adulthood and left home.


empty-nester

noun

  1. informal.
    a married person whose children have grown up and left home
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of empty nester1

First recorded in 1960–65; empty nest + -er 1
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But then, as she approached becoming an empty nester, Dressback began having panic attacks around being gay, she said, feeling that “I’ve pushed this down for a really long time.”

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Now, I'm an empty nester with an as-yet unpublished novel in a marriage where we can finish each other's sentences.

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Milestones like a 40th or 50th birthday, or becoming an empty nester, can provoke uncertainty about your life and your future.

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She joined Airbnb when she became an empty nester to earn money in retirement and to meet people from around the world.

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It was Sandy Stokes — the sandpaper-voiced empty nester who had white shag carpet in her California living room and an uncanny empathy for the Czechoslovakian immigrants next door — who gave me the book.

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