Usually means: Children gone, parents live alone.
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  1. empty-nest: Wordnik
  2. empty nest: Wiktionary
  3. empty nest: Dictionary.com
  4. Empty Nest (TV series), Empty Nest, Empty nest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. empty nest: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Definitions from Wiktionary (empty nest)

noun:  A home or a family where the children have grown up and moved away.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see empty, nest.

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