retirement home

noun

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

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The Peays’ neighbors and even the staff at their retirement home can’t recall another couple that's ever celebrated an 80th anniversary. Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 28 Aug. 2025 Rather than young school children, our heroes are octogenarians living in a rather upmarket retirement home (the fictitious Coopers Chase). Alex Ritman, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025 Mirren plays a retirement home resident who solves cold cases with the help of her friends (Pierce Brosnan, Celia Imrie and Ben Kingsley). Eric Andersson, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025 Partly by placing it in a retirement home was a sort of a genius idea. H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025 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 10 Sep. 2025.

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