pensionnaire
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- pensionaire (obsolete)
Etymology edit
From Middle French pensionnaire, pensionaire.
Noun edit
pensionnaire (plural pensionnaires)
- (obsolete) Someone receiving a pension. [17th–19th c.]
- Someone who boards at a lodging-house, school, or other institution; a boarder, especially in France or other European countries. [from 18th c.]
- 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. [from 19th c.]
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pensionnaire m or f by sense (plural pensionnaires)
Further reading edit
- “pensionnaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.