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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle French pensionnaire, pensionaire.
Noun
pensionnaire (plural pensionnaires)
- (obsolete) Someone receiving a pension.
- Someone who boards at a lodging-house, school, or other institution; a boarder, especially in France or other European countries.
1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle , volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., , →OCLC:[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.
- A junior member of the Comédie Française.
French
Etymology
From pension + -aire.
Pronunciation
Noun
pensionnaire m or f by sense (plural pensionnaires)
- boarder; lodger
- pensioner
- boarder (someone in a boarding school)
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