nursing home

1. 1.

   an institution where people are cared for

   “a home for the elderly”

   Synonymshomerest home

   Broaderinstitution

Questions about nursing home

What does nursing home mean?

nursing home means "an institution where people are cared for".

What is another word for nursing home?

Close synonyms include home, rest home. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nursing home a common word?

nursing home is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.