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

But about 10% of disabled kids in foster care live in group homes and institutions, compared to just 4% of those without disabilities. — Joseph Shapiro, NPR, 3 Oct. 2026

The state oversees different types of facilities for kids in the justice system, ranging in security level from group homes to prisons surrounded by barbed wire. — Paige Pfleger, ProPublica, 25 Sep. 2026

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

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