"nursing home" meaning in English

See nursing home in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: En-us-nursing home.oga [US] Forms: nursing homes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} nursing home (plural nursing homes)
  1. A place of residence for people who require constant nursing care and have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living, such as the elderly and younger adults with physical disabilities. Wikipedia link: nursing home Synonyms: care home, carehouse, old-age home, old folks' home [US], old people's home, rest home, senior citizens' home [US] Translations (place of residence): γεροντοκομεῖον (gerontokomeîon) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), ծերանոց (ceranocʻ) (note: for elderly) (Armenian), 療養院 (Chinese Mandarin), 疗养院 (liáoyǎngyuàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 養老院 (Chinese Mandarin), 养老院 (yǎnglǎoyuàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 敬老院 (jìnglǎoyuàn) (Chinese Mandarin), maljunulejo (Esperanto), hoitokoti (Finnish), maison de repos [feminine] (French), Pflegeheim [neuter] (German), γηροκομείο (girokomeío) [neuter] (Greek), οίκος ευγηρίας (oíkos evgirías) [masculine] (Greek), વૃદ્ધાશ્રમ (vŕddhāśram) (Gujarati), hjúkrunarheimili [neuter] (Icelandic), teach altranais [masculine] (Irish), casa di riposo [feminine] (Italian), 老人ホーム (rōjin hōmu) (note: for elderly) (Japanese), 養護ホーム (yōgo hōmu) (Japanese), 요양원 (yoyang'won) (Korean), Fleegeheem [neuter] (Luxembourgish), whare mātāpuputu (Maori), aramxane [feminine] (Northern Kurdish), dom pomocy społecznej [masculine] (Polish), dom spokojnej starości [masculine] (Polish), dom pogodnej jesieni [masculine] (Polish), dom starców [masculine] (Polish), asilo [masculine] (Portuguese), casa de repouso [feminine] (Portuguese), дом престаре́лых (dom prestarélyx) (note: for elderly) [masculine] (Russian), ча́стная лече́бница (částnaja lečébnica) [feminine] (Russian), taigh-altraim [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), ста̏рачкӣ до̑м [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), до̑м за старије и немоћне особе [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), stȁračkī dȏm [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), dȏm za starije i nemoćne osobe [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), asilo [masculine] (Spanish), cotolengo [Latin-America] (Spanish), ålderdomshem (note: for elderly) [neuter] (Swedish), äldreboende [neuter] (Swedish), åldringshem (english: Finland Swedish) [neuter] (Swedish), vårdhem [neuter] (Swedish), cartref nyrsio [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-nursing_home-en-noun-46U9ywrG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for nursing home meaning in English (6.9kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nursing homes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nursing home (plural nursing homes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A place of residence for people who require constant nursing care and have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living, such as the elderly and younger adults with physical disabilities."
      ],
      "id": "en-nursing_home-en-noun-46U9ywrG",
      "links": [
        [
          "residence",
          "residence"
        ],
        [
          "nursing",
          "nursing"
        ],
        [
          "care",
          "care"
        ],
        [
          "deficiencies",
          "deficiencies"
        ],
        [
          "activities of daily living",
          "activities of daily living"
        ],
        [
          "elderly",
          "elderly"
        ],
        [
          "physical",
          "physical"
        ],
        [
          "disabilities",
          "disability"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "care home"
        },
        {
          "word": "carehouse"
        },
        {
          "word": "old-age home"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "US"
          ],
          "word": "old folks' home"
        },
        {
          "word": "old people's home"
        },
        {
          "word": "rest home"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "US"
          ],
          "word": "senior citizens' home"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "note": "for elderly",
          "roman": "ceranocʻ",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "word": "ծերանոց"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "word": "療養院"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "liáoyǎngyuàn",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "word": "疗养院"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "word": "養老院"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yǎnglǎoyuàn",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "word": "养老院"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "jìnglǎoyuàn",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "word": "敬老院"
        },
        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "word": "maljunulejo"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "word": "hoitokoti"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "maison de repos"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Pflegeheim"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "girokomeío",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "γηροκομείο"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "oíkos evgirías",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "οίκος ευγηρίας"
        },
        {
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "gerontokomeîon",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "γεροντοκομεῖον"
        },
        {
          "code": "gu",
          "lang": "Gujarati",
          "roman": "vŕddhāśram",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "word": "વૃદ્ધાશ્રમ"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "hjúkrunarheimili"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "teach altranais"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "casa di riposo"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "note": "for elderly",
          "roman": "rōjin hōmu",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "word": "老人ホーム"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "yōgo hōmu",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "word": "養護ホーム"
        },
        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "yoyang'won",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "word": "요양원"
        },
        {
          "code": "kmr",
          "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "aramxane"
        },
        {
          "code": "lb",
          "lang": "Luxembourgish",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Fleegeheem"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "word": "whare mātāpuputu"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "dom pomocy społecznej"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "dom spokojnej starości"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "dom pogodnej jesieni"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "dom starców"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "asilo"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "casa de repouso"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "note": "for elderly",
          "roman": "dom prestarélyx",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "дом престаре́лых"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "částnaja lečébnica",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ча́стная лече́бница"
        },
        {
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "taigh-altraim"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ста̏рачкӣ до̑м"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "до̑м за старије и немоћне особе"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "stȁračkī dȏm"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "dȏm za starije i nemoćne osobe"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "asilo"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "Latin-America"
          ],
          "word": "cotolengo"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "note": "for elderly",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "ålderdomshem"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "äldreboende"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "english": "Finland Swedish",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "åldringshem"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "vårdhem"
        },
        {
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "place of residence",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "cartref nyrsio"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "nursing home"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-us-nursing home.oga",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/04/En-us-nursing_home.oga/En-us-nursing_home.oga.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/En-us-nursing_home.oga",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nursing home"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nursing homes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nursing home (plural nursing homes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A place of residence for people who require constant nursing care and have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living, such as the elderly and younger adults with physical disabilities."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "residence",
          "residence"
        ],
        [
          "nursing",
          "nursing"
        ],
        [
          "care",
          "care"
        ],
        [
          "deficiencies",
          "deficiencies"
        ],
        [
          "activities of daily living",
          "activities of daily living"
        ],
        [
          "elderly",
          "elderly"
        ],
        [
          "physical",
          "physical"
        ],
        [
          "disabilities",
          "disability"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "nursing home"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-us-nursing home.oga",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/04/En-us-nursing_home.oga/En-us-nursing_home.oga.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/En-us-nursing_home.oga",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "care home"
    },
    {
      "word": "carehouse"
    },
    {
      "word": "old-age home"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "word": "old folks' home"
    },
    {
      "word": "old people's home"
    },
    {
      "word": "rest home"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "word": "senior citizens' home"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "note": "for elderly",
      "roman": "ceranocʻ",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "word": "ծերանոց"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "word": "療養院"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "liáoyǎngyuàn",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "word": "疗养院"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "word": "養老院"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yǎnglǎoyuàn",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "word": "养老院"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jìnglǎoyuàn",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "word": "敬老院"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "word": "maljunulejo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "word": "hoitokoti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "maison de repos"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Pflegeheim"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "girokomeío",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "γηροκομείο"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "oíkos evgirías",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "οίκος ευγηρίας"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "gerontokomeîon",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "γεροντοκομεῖον"
    },
    {
      "code": "gu",
      "lang": "Gujarati",
      "roman": "vŕddhāśram",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "word": "વૃદ્ધાશ્રમ"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hjúkrunarheimili"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "teach altranais"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "casa di riposo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "note": "for elderly",
      "roman": "rōjin hōmu",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "word": "老人ホーム"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "yōgo hōmu",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "word": "養護ホーム"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "yoyang'won",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "word": "요양원"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "aramxane"
    },
    {
      "code": "lb",
      "lang": "Luxembourgish",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Fleegeheem"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "word": "whare mātāpuputu"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dom pomocy społecznej"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dom spokojnej starości"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dom pogodnej jesieni"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dom starców"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "asilo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "casa de repouso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "note": "for elderly",
      "roman": "dom prestarélyx",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "дом престаре́лых"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "částnaja lečébnica",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ча́стная лече́бница"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "taigh-altraim"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ста̏рачкӣ до̑м"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "до̑м за старије и немоћне особе"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "stȁračkī dȏm"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dȏm za starije i nemoćne osobe"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "asilo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "Latin-America"
      ],
      "word": "cotolengo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "note": "for elderly",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ålderdomshem"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "äldreboende"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "english": "Finland Swedish",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "åldringshem"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "vårdhem"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "place of residence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cartref nyrsio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nursing home"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.