Phrase guide
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noun
A supervised residential facility that provides a structured transitional [[environment] for people moving from institutional care, incarceration, or treatment back into the community.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A halfway point towards achieving a goal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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noun
An inn reached about midway through a journey.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: literally
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Broader terms: roadhouse, coaching inn, inn, hotel, house
noun
Any place of calm and respite reached during a journey.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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History
The term in its original sense (the literal one) was clearly already a well-established term when Samuel Pepys mentioned a prominent example in his diary in 1662.
Across languages
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
