group home

noun

: a residence for persons requiring care or supervision

Examples of group home in a Sentence

a group home for young adults with disabilities

Recent Examples on the Web

The native New Yorker bounced from family to family and then to a group home. — Anne Kadet, Curbed, 10 Sep. 2026

Winkels had a difficult life, and had lived at a group home for children and teens in Jefferson County prior to moving to Milwaukee. — Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 10 Sep. 2026

After opening up about his gender identity and sexuality to another youth at a group home in rural Oregon, Rin quickly regretted it, feeling ostracized from the other youth by his caregivers and misunderstood. — Diego Mendoza, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026

After 9-year-old foster child Jakob Blodgett died from diabetes complications at an Arizona group home, the state issued a violation but imposed no fines or license penalties. — Jacques Billeaud, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1967, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for group home

• biome
• genome
• nichrome
• noisome
• prodrome
• radome
• rhizome
• shalom
• syndrome
• acrosome
• aerodrome
• catacomb

Medical Definition

group home

noun

-ˌhōm 

: a residence for persons (as developmentally disabled individuals or foster children) requiring care, assistance, or supervision