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empty nester
noun
- a parent whose children have reached adulthood and left home.
empty-nester
noun
- informal.a married person whose children have grown up and left home
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Origin of empty nester1
Example Sentences
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.â€
Now, I'm an empty nester with an as-yet unpublished novel in a marriage where we can finish each other's sentences.
Milestones like a 40th or 50th birthday, or becoming an empty nester, can provoke uncertainty about your life and your future.
She joined Airbnb when she became an empty nester to earn money in retirement and to meet people from around the world.
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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