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Definition of poorhouse:

A residence for persons receiving public charity.

Synonyms:

gated community, austerity, affordable housing, penury, privation, deprivation, doublewide, in-law apartment, the poorhouse, cohousing, group home, destitution, subsistence level, domicile, gutter, want, council house, active adult community, home unit.

poverty (part of speech: noun)
- harbor,
- house for paupers,
- asylum,
- almshouse,
- poverty,
- shelter,
- retreat

Usage examples:

Picked up from the dirty floor of the poorhouse, his father was identified as the lazy porter who sometimes chopped a cord of wood for my grandmother; and his sisters were slovenly housemaids scattered through Polotzk.

- "The Promised Land", Mary Antin.
The shadow of the poorhouse had stood in her way for years.

- "The Bondboy", George W. (George Washington) Ogden.
Penniless, without friends, sick, he drifted naturally to the county poorhouse.

- "The Blazed Trail", Stewart Edward White.