home
- noun
- /hoʊm/
- He'd been living at a senior citizens' home and getting by on Social Security and food stamps.
- a care home
- a nursing home
- a retirement home
And I was carted off to a home in speak.
- And I was carted off to a home in speak.
Examples
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The student, who worked at a nursing home, discovered that the home's future was in jeopardy.
Academic text (2011) -
After my parents could no longer care for me, I spent several years in a residential home for children.
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Then you wake up in an old people's home feeling better every day.
Academic text (2017) -
The Ministry of Health is responsible for nursing homes, with payment based on a means test.
Academic text (2008) -
Review: In patients with dementia who live in care homes, some nondrug interventions reduce agitation.
Academic text (2015) -
The elderly residents in this home receive specialized care from trained staff every day.
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During the meeting, we discussed improvements needed in the nursing home to better support its inhabitants.
Synonyms
A place where older people live and receive help with daily tasks and medical care
A place where older people who need help live and get care
A place where older people live and get care
Idioms
- Informal
Leave a game or group angrily because you did not get your way
- Informal
To leave a group or activity because you do not get your way
- Informal
To eat so much at someone's home that they have almost no food left
- Offensive
Looking awake but not paying attention or thinking clearly
Compounds
A place where older people live and receive help with daily tasks and medical care
A place where people prepare a dead body for burial or cremation and say goodbye
- Texting
The main page of a website that appears when you open the site or your browser
- Jargon
A flat rubber base with five sides that a batter stands over and runners touch to score
- Specialized
Care and help with medical and personal needs in a person's home for elderly or disabled people
- Offensive
A person who has a romantic relationship with someone married or in a relationship, causing it to end
- US
A set of speakers and a big screen at home for watching movies like in a cinema
- Specialized
A loan that uses the value of your house to get money for big expenses
- Literature
A senior government minister who leads the Home Office and handles security, law and immigration
- UK
A UK government department that handles immigration, security and police matters
- Formal
The right of a city or county to run its own local matters without central government control
- Formal
An official order telling people to remain at home to slow the spread of a disease
A school subject about running a home, like cooking, sewing, and managing money
A place where a person, group, or animal feels most comfortable, often a team's regular field
A place where young people who have broken the law stay temporarily under court supervision
- Specialized
A regional bank that lends short-term money to local savings banks to support home loans
- Archaic
A hospital for people who cannot look after themselves because of mental illness
A US company backed by the government that buys home loans to help banks lend more
- Archaic
A festival at the end of the farming year when people gather to celebrate crops
How Medical
Surface Forms
Etymology
Home Calling a care institution a 'home' comes from the same heim idea of a house where people live together, so a care home is meant to be a place to live and feel safe. This is why we use 'home' for places that care for people.