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BROKEN HOME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does broken home mean?
• BROKEN HOME (noun)
The noun BROKEN HOME has 1 sense:
1. a family in which the parents have separated or divorced
Familiarity information: BROKEN HOME used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family in which the parents have separated or divorced
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("broken home" is a kind of...):
family; home; house; household; menage (a social unit living together)
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