soldiers' home

noun

1. an institution that provides care and shelter for retired soldiers.

Word History and Origins

Origin of soldiers' home¹

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65

Example Sentences

“This is the first time I’ve seen or read anything where the president of the United States has taken a position that this is a Soldiers’ Home.”

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“Although I disagree with the president on almost everything, I am as eager as he is to see the Soldiers’ Home become a community for veterans and to see us establish a Center for Warrior Independence in West L.A.,”

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“We look forward to working with the administration to make the right things—housing, community, workforce development— available to veterans at the historic Pacific Branch property,” Allman said, using the historic name for the disabled soldiers home created there in the 19th century.

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Four years later, thoughtfully but perhaps unhelpfully, a federal judge decreed that 28 bottles of champagne seized from a drugstore not far from the Soldiers’ Home be donated to the old fellows.

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When these men died, aged before their years, many were buried in the national cemetery to the east of the Soldiers’ Home, now divided from it by the 405 Freeway.

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