senior center

[seen-yer sen-ter]

noun

1. a community center for older adults, especially senior citizens, in which they can gather for social, educational, and other activities.

   We believe the senior center is what helped give our mother some of her life back.

Word History and Origins

Origin of senior center¹

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

There the tribe has built a senior center and a shaded arbor for its ceremonial gatherings, including the making of “nupa,” the Miwok word for acorn soup.

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But she’s still very involved in her old community as the president of the senior center, which was destroyed in the fire.

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Dent is one of five veteran transfers, joining redshirt senior center Steven Jamerson II, junior center Xavier Booker, redshirt senior guard Jamar Brown and redshirt senior forward Anthony Peoples Jr. Cronin identified Jamerson, a transfer from the University of San Diego who previously played for coach Steve Lavin, as “a huge steal for us” based on what he’s shown in summer workouts.

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In 2022, Annenberg opened the Wallis Annenberg GenSpace, a senior center in Koreatown offering visitors a place to pursue new interests and find community through classes that include belly dancing, horticultural therapy and financial literacy.

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At the senior center, she uses her own equipment to make buttons that she sells on the Venice boardwalk, where she can make up to $200 on a good weekend.

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