| 单词 | nursing home |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnursing home nursing home n. a small (often private) institution providing residential accommodation with health care, esp. for the elderly; (also occasionally figurative) a place where certain qualities are nurtured. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > [noun] schoolOE universityc1300 academyc1550 nursery1581 training place1581 seminarya1604 cathedral1644 teaching house1849 separate school1852 nursing home1880 stable1942 the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > nursing home maison de santé1843 old people's home1873 nursing home1880 rest home1889 1880 Scribner's Monthly Oct. 936/1 Hundreds of thousands of acres of beautiful woodlands, that were the nursing-homes of streams..have been burned up. 1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 681 He was removed to a nursing-home. 1938 L. P. Smith Unforgotten Years vi. 149 Her barrister husband insisted..that I should be transferred without delay to what was, in his opinion, the only nursing home of reasonable thought and noble ambition—in fact, to Balliol College. 1986 Herald (Keswick & Lake District) 13 Sept. 1/4 I don't think there is a nursing home in Keswick and a nursing home does not just embrace the elderly. It is for the sick. < as lemmas |
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