Stay up meaning
Stay up is a phrasal verb with 2 meanings. One of them is to remain awake beyond the time when you normally go to bed.
- Past simple
- stayed up
- Past participle
- stayed up
- -ing form
- staying up
What stay up means
remain awakeB2
To remain awake beyond the time when you normally go to bed
We stayed up late to watch the final.
1 more meaning of stay up is in the Retite app, with an example and a translation into your language.
More meanings in the appSimilar phrasal verbs
With stay: stay in.
With up: wake up, pick up, grow up, line up, make up, set up, put up, go up, bring up, mess up.
Common questions
What does stay up mean?
It has 2 meanings. One of them is to remain awake beyond the time when you normally go to bed. The other one, with an example and a translation into your language, is in the Retite app.
What is the past tense of stay up?
Stayed up, which is also its past participle.
Meanings and examples are written by Retite. The meanings follow Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Levels are based on the CEFR-J Wordlist and set by Retite.
