retirement community

American  

noun

1. a group of houses in a suburban area or a town designed primarily for retired persons.

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Etymology

Origin of retirement community

First recorded in 1975–80

Example Sentences

We’ve had my grandparents’ old piano ever since they moved from the house in Connecticut where Mom grew up to a retirement community in Florida.

From Literature

The Senate “isn’t a retirement community,” the younger man likes to say.

From The Wall Street Journal

The property was a mobile home in a retirement community and was registered like a vehicle through the DMV.

From MarketWatch

These days, Silverblatt lives in a 55-and-up retirement community near Palm Beach with his wife and is looking to eventually buy a home.

From The Wall Street Journal

The following year, Jim and Nina Cope headed in the opposite direction, selling their mobile home in a retirement community in Avon Park, Fla., for $59,000 after repeated rent hikes for the lot.

From The Wall Street Journal