nursing home
Americannoun
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a private residential institution equipped to care for persons unable to look after themselves, as the aged or chronically ill.
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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.
noun
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a private hospital or residence staffed and equipped to care for aged or infirm persons
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a private maternity home
Etymology
Origin of nursing home
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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Lynette Vanhorne, a resident, said in March that her condo isn’t livable, so she is staying at the nursing home where she works.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
And we spoke with a middle-aged woman with schizophrenia and panic disorder who lives with her brother’s family because she can’t hold down a job and fears being left alone in a nursing home.
From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026
A study a few years ago found that resident mortality jumped by 10% on average after a nursing home was taken over by private equity.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 24, 2026
Frank Chester, who was born in Ludlow, Shropshire, in April 1917, died at a nursing home in Malvern, Worcestershire, on Sunday, nine days after his birthday.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
She is always tired—tired from working nights at the nursing home, tired from the elderly people and their demands, tired from scrubbing the nursing home floors, changing the patients' beds, from raising three boys alone.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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