retirement home

noun

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

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The death toll from a fire at a retirement home in Tuzla in northern Bosnia-Herzegovina rose to 11 on Wednesday and about 30 people were injured, police said. CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025 Despite the realistic look and feel of the videos, there’s no actual retirement home behind them. Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025 Also booked into Tribeca Festival Lisboa is Antonio Ferreira’s A Memoria do Cheiro das Coisas (The Scent of Things Remembered), about a colonial war veteran who faces the ghosts of his past when cared for by a Black caregiver in a retirement home. Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025 So will Marion, who since Mark’s death has moved to the new house in Galway that was supposed to be the couple’s retirement home. Steve Madeley, New York Times, 28 Sep. 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 12 Nov. 2025.

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