nursing home
183
2.9
- noun
- /ˈnɜrsɪŋ hoʊm/
:
residencia de ancianos
- Most of the residents of the nursing home came to the terrace without their sweaters.
- nursing home care
- nursing home residents
- elderly nursing home residents
Go volunteer at a nursing home for one day in your life.
- Go volunteer at a nursing home for one day in your life.
- What they want to do is cut the support that seniors in nursing homes get.
- So I would have loved to have seen him and, you know, gone to visit him in the nursing home but wasn't allowed to.
- You know, I have a great deal of compassion for people as we speak who are in nursing homes having a hard time walking.
- I think he needs to go completely to like an Alzheimer's, Alzheimer's dementia style nursing home.
- Patients in nursing homes are, are in, in different housing situations, right?
- He had Parkinson's disease in that nursing home and we I would go visit him and we didn't get close to after this.
- It's going to affect our military, our nursing homes, our children, our schools.
Examples
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Now she's going into a nursing home and I never realized how much paperwork she had.
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Medicaid is one of the major funding sources for nursing home care and formal home health care.
Academic text (2013) -
We have to still do a better job at testing nursing home staff, for example.
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Go volunteer at a nursing home for one day in your life.
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The Ministry of Health is responsible for nursing homes, with payment based on a means test.
Academic text (2008) -
Sandy finished out the day and reported to the nursing home the next morning.
Fiction book (1992) -
More people will be living in isolation or in residential and nursing home care.
Academic text (2012) -
My mom's in a nursing home in Le Marque.
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My grandmother receives excellent care in the nursing home where she lives.
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After her surgery, she moved to a nursing home for rehabilitation.
Synonyms
10
2.7
A place where older people who need help live and get care
8
3.4
A place where older people live and get care
How Medical
∞
1.0
183
2.9
- Specialized
11
2.8
- Informal
10
2.7
12
3.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an institution providing residential care for elderly or disabled people' is directly derivable from 'nursing' (care provided by health professionals) combined with 'home' (a place of residence). This noun–noun compound follows a transparent compositional pattern common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Nursing home is made from nursing (giving care for health) and home (a place to live). So it means a place where people live while they are 'nursed'—that is, cared for and helped with daily needs.