retirement community

1. 1.

   a planned community for residents who have retired from an active working life

   Synonymsretirement complex

   Broaderplanned community

Questions about retirement community

What does retirement community mean?

retirement community means "a planned community for residents who have retired from an active working life".

What is another word for retirement community?

Close synonyms include retirement complex. 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 retirement community a common word?

retirement community 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.