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retirement community

NOUN
rest home
Synonyms
WEAK
assisted living facility continuing care convalescent home convalescent hospital old folks' home old soldiers' home retirement facility retirement home sailors' snug harbor sanitarium
NOUN
retirement home
Synonyms
WEAK
continuing-care community life-care home retirement village

Example Sentences

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Some call the Villages - the largest retirement community in the world - "Disney without rollercoasters".

From BBC • May 1, 2026

We have no debt and live in a continuing-care retirement community.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

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 • Jan. 11, 2026

The 76-year-old actor leads a cast of septuagenarian stars as a retired professor who takes on a job going undercover at a retirement community.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

Mrs. Miles’s son made her move to a retirement community.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan