ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Pensionnaire

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Pensionnaire is a noun meaning Someone who boards at a lodging-house, school, or other institution; a boarder, especially in France or other European countries.

Meaning

Someone who boards at a lodging-house, school, or other institution; a boarder, especially in France or other European countries.

More Meanings

  1. A junior member of the Comédie Française.
  2. (obsolete) Someone receiving a pension.

Example Sentences

[H]e found she had not taken the veil; but her mother being lately dead, had entered as a pensionaire, until her family-affairs could be adjusted.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pencioner, pension, penitentiary, perpension, guardant, paiment.

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