rest home

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noun
  1. a residential establishment that provides special care for convalescents and aged or infirm persons.

Origin of rest home

1
First recorded in 1920–25

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How to use rest home in a sentence

  • The right word, he thought dismally, was going to be "rest home."

    Occasion for Disaster | Gordon Randall Garrett

British Dictionary definitions for rest-home

rest-home

noun
  1. an old people's home

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