retirement home

noun

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

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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 Partly by placing it in a retirement home was a sort of a genius idea. H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025 The decision to have the nuns placed in a Catholic retirement home was made in December 2023, according to the BBC. David Chiu, PEOPLE, 19 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 5 Nov. 2025.

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