retirement home

noun

: a place where retired people can live and sometimes be taken care of

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Widowed, heartbroken, and left rattling around the house her own father built (the film has a real sense of place, both out in the town and inside the aquarium and Tova’s home), Tova is preparing to decamp for a luxe retirement home across the bay. Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 7 May 2026 After his death, the cottage remained a vacation home for presidents, became an office and community center for the retirement home, and a dormitory for female residents. Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 3 May 2026 The New York Times reported that Ellerup and her children would be moving to South Carolina, where a property had been purchased years earlier as a retirement home. Emily Krauser, PEOPLE, 8 Apr. 2026 Also, university and college student identification cards and retirement home identification cards will no longer be allowed to be used to verify identity at the ballot box. Ana Goñi-Lessan, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for retirement home

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“Retirement home.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/retirement%20home. Accessed 11 May. 2026.

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