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rest home
noun
- a residential establishment that provides special care for convalescents and aged or infirm persons.
rest-home
noun
- an old people's home
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rest home1
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Example Sentences
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
Frankie uses his insurance money to open a rest home on Mars for ailing musicians.
After working in Minsk for one year I received a vacation and went to a rest home near Leningrad.
Three weeks in the rest home, and one week I spent in Leningrad with some friends.
This is my notebook, various addresses—when I was at the rest home, I simply noted down the addresses of some acquaintances.
The right word, he thought dismally, was going to be "rest home."
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