Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A place of residence for people who require constant nursing care and have significant deficiency with activities of daily living, such as the elderly and younger adults with physical disability.
WordNet
n. an institution where people are cared for; "a home for the elderly" [syn: home, nursing home]
Usage examples of "rest home".
His father had passed away a few years ago in an expensive rest home in Arizona.
I thought back to the rest home where I had awakened, back to the battle for Amber, back to my walking the Pattern in Rebma, and back to that time with Moire, who just might be Eric's by now.
I thought back to the rest home where I had awakened, back to the battle for Amber, back to my walking the Pattern in Rebma, and back to that time with Moire, who just might be Eric‘.
But three days later, when ghost images of people he had feared all his life came to haunt him, he broke completely and allowed Connie to call the rest home on the boa constrictor that had once been the phone.
I sometimes think of us as a gang of mean little old ladies in a combination rest home and obstacle course.