pensioner

English

Alternative forms

• pencioner (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English pensioner, from Anglo-Norman pensionner and Old French pensionnier, from Medieval Latin pēnsiōnārius. By surface analysis, pension +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛnʃənɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛnʃənə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Hyphenation: pen‧sion‧er

Noun

pensioner (plural pensioners)

1. (chiefly UK, Canada) Someone who lives on a pension, especially the retirement or old age pension.

   Synonym: retiree

2. (by extension) Someone who is at the age at which one typically receives a pension; an elderly person.

   Synonyms: older adult, senior citizen

3. (obsolete, UK, Cambridge University) A student who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; at Oxford called a commoner.

   Coordinate term: sizar

Derived terms

• Chelsea pensioner
• early retirement pensioner
• old age pensioner
• old-age pensioner

 

Descendants

• → Welsh: pensiynwr

Translations

someone who lives on a pension

• Arabic: مُتَقَاعِد m (mutaqāʕid)
• Armenian: թոշակառու (hy) (tʻošakaṙu)
• Belarusian: пенсіяне́р m (pjensijanjér), пенсіяне́рка f (pjensijanjérka), пэнсiянэ́р m (pensijanér), пэнсiянэ́рка f (pensijanérka)
• Bulgarian: пенсионе́р m (pensionér)
• Burmese: ပင်စင်စား (my) (pangcangca:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 領養老金的人／领养老金的人 (lǐng yǎnglǎojīn de rén)

• Corsican: pinsiunariu (co)
• Czech: důchodce (cs) m, důchodkyně f
• Danish: pensionist (da) c
• Dutch: gepensioneerde (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: pensiulo
• Estonian: pensionär
• Finnish: eläkeläinen (fi)
• French: retraité (fr) m, retraitée (fr) f
• Galician: pensionista m or f
• Georgian: პენსიონერი (ṗensioneri)
• German: Rentner (de) m, Rentnerin (de) f, Pensionär (de) m, Pensionärin f
• Greek: συνταξιούχος (el) m or f (syntaxioúchos)
• Hungarian: nyugdíjas (hu)
• Indonesian: pensiunan (id)
• Irish: pinsinéir m
• Italian: pensionato (it) m
• Japanese: 年金受給者 (ねんきんじゅきゅうしゃ, nenkin jukyūsha)
• Kazakh: зейнеткер (zeinetker)
• Korean: 연금수령자 (ko) (yeon'geumsuryeongja)
• Lithuanian: pensininkas m, pensininkė f
• Macedonian: пензионер m (penzioner)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pensjonist (no) m, alderspensjonist m

  Nynorsk: pensjonist m, alderspensjonist m

• Polish: emeryt (pl) m, emerytka (pl) f
• Portuguese: pensionista m or f, reformado (pt) m, reformada f, aposentado (pt) m, aposentada f
• Russian: пенсионе́р (ru) m (pensionér), пенсионе́рка (ru) f (pensionérka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: penziònēr (sh) m, умировљѐнӣк m

  Roman: penziònēr (sh) m, umirovljènīk (sh) m

• Slovak: dôchodca m
• Slovene: upokojenec m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: rentnaŕ m

• Spanish: pensionista m or f
• Swedish: pensionär (sv)
• Ukrainian: пенсіоне́р m (pensionér), пенсіоне́рка f (pensionérka)

someone at typical age for a pensioner — see senior citizen

Anagrams

• perniones, ponerines

Swedish

Noun

pensioner

1. indefinite plural of pension