Empty-nest Definition

noun
A home or a family where the children have grown up and moved away.
Rather than sit around her empty nest reminiscing about bygone days, she converted her sons' bedroom into an office and launched an at-home business.
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Other Word Forms of Empty-nest

Noun

Singular:
empty-nest
Plural:
empty-nests

Origin of Empty-nest

  • From birds whose offspring leave the nest when they reach maturity.

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Empty-nest Sentence Examples

  • They're probably suffering from some serious empty nest syndrome now that you're all grown up and gone, and so they are asserting their authority over you and acting super-parental (and annoying) to compensate.

  • Older couples in the church have already raised their families and might be willing to mentor your family as you move through child rearing, into the teenage years and finally into the empty nest years.

  • Bird Song was an empty nest.

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