nursing home

noun

1. a private residential institution equipped to care for persons unable to look after themselves, as the aged or chronically ill.
2. Chiefly British. a small private hospital; a small hospital owned by one person or a group of individuals and supported solely by the fees of patients.

nursing home

noun

1. a private hospital or residence staffed and equipped to care for aged or infirm persons
2. a private maternity home

Word History and Origins

Origin of nursing home¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

Nor are we told that she lost her job at a local nursing home after she tried to register to vote in 1964.

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She spent almost two years in a nursing home – two years of loneliness she would like to forget.

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He was known to traverse Brooklyn to visit somebody a decade older than himself in a nursing home.

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“One of the directors of a local nursing home said 85 percent of his residents had no visitors,” Zador told The Daily Beast.

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But, in a campaign defined by a blogger breaking into a nursing home, stranger things have happened.

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"I sent her on an ambulance to a nursing-home in London," said Tarling shortly.

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Remember that she did not even know where the nursing home was situated.

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He got into Tarling's cab, and a few minutes later they were at the nursing home.

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On his way back from the nursing home to police headquarters, he reviewed the Hertford crime.

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He had learnt that Odette Rider was in London in a nursing home, as the result of a set of curious circumstances.

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