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adult home

American

noun

any of various private residences for former state psychiatric patients, supervised by a department of a state or city government.

Etymology

Origin of adult home

First recorded in 1975–1980

Example Sentences

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According to the same view the old adult phases are not obliterated but persist in a more or less modified form as larval stages.

From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)

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