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From Middle English pensioner, from Anglo-Norman pensionner and Old French pensionnier, from Medieval Latin pēnsiōnārius. By surface analysis, pension + -er.
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pensioner (plural pensioners)
- (chiefly UK, Canada) Someone who lives on a pension, especially the retirement or old age pension.
- Synonym: retiree
- (by extension) Someone who is at the age at which one typically receives a pension; an elderly person.
- Synonyms: older adult, senior citizen
- (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
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someone who lives on a pension
- Arabic: مُتَقَاعِد m (mutaqāʕid)
- Armenian: թոշակառու (hy) (tʿošakaṙu)
- 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)
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