leave home

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

leave home (third-person singular simple present leaves home, present participle leaving home, simple past and past participle left home)

1. (idiomatic) To stop living with one's parents.

   Synonyms: leave the nest, fly the nest

Translations

stop living with one's parents

• Finnish: muuttaa omilleen
• French: quitter le nid familial, quitter le nid
• Polish: wyprowadzać się impf, wyprowadzić się pf
• Spanish: irse de casa

See also

• stand on one's own two feet
• home leave

Further reading

• “leave home”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.