boarding home

American  

[bawr-ding hohm, bohr-ding hohm] / ˈbɔr dɪŋ ˌhoʊm, ˈboʊr dɪŋ ˌhoʊm /

noun

plural

boarding homes

1. a building which offers housing and care services for vulnerable populations such as children or elderly people.

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Example Sentences

She landed in the hospital and then in a boarding home for adults with mental illness.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2018

Elizabeth Terry, 63, a caregiver who lives in a boarding home in the Verdugo mountains, has had to evacuate three times: a wildfire in 2016, another in 2017, then this week’s mudslides.

From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2018

“I had something very similar happen to me when I was boarding home last year,” one Redditor said in response to the above video.

From Slate • Nov. 12, 2017

He spent his teenage years in a boarding home.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2015

I saw a boarding school for girls, a boarding home for younger children, an institution for the feeble-minded, three of the new homes organized by the Soviet Government, and two small hospitals for children.

From The Bullitt Mission to Russia by Bullitt, William C. (William Christian)