halfway house

== English == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === === Noun === halfway house (plural halfway houses) A temporary residence for those who have left prison, residential drug rehabilitation, or the like, designed to ease them back into society. (figuratively) A halfway point towards achieving a goal. (literally) An inn reached about midway through a journey. Hypernyms: roadhouse, coaching inn < inn, hotel < house (figuratively) Any place of calm and respite reached during a journey. ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== === Further reading === halfway house on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “halfway house”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.