rest home

1. 1.

   an institution where people are cared for

   “a home for the elderly”

   Synonymshomenursing home

   Broaderinstitution

Questions about rest home

What does rest home mean?

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

What is another word for rest home?

Close synonyms include home, nursing 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 rest home a common word?

rest home is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.