group home

noun

: a residence for persons requiring care or supervision

Examples of group home in a Sentence

a group home for young adults with disabilities
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Often, the people allowed to join go directly from jail into a group home. Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2025 In 2010, Indiana couple Kristine (Ellen Pompeo) and Michael Barnett (Mark Duplass) receive a call that a little girl named Natalia Grace (Imogen Faith Reid), who was born in Ukraine with a rare form of dwarfism, needs immediate placement with a family or she’ll be sent to a group home. Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 19 Mar. 2025 Vassell said her son, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, lives in a group home in East Flatbush more than 2 miles away from where he was shot. Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2025 The email was sent in response to a plan by the city of Fort Worth to rezone 23 properties owned by the district to make sure they can only be used for community facilities such as schools, colleges, churches, recreational centers and group homes. Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for group home

Word History

First Known Use

1967, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of group home was in 1967

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“Group home.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/group%20home. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

Medical Definition

group home

noun
: a residence for persons (as developmentally disabled individuals or foster children) requiring care, assistance, or supervision
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