pensioner

English

Alternative forms

pencioner (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English pensioner, from Anglo-Norman pensionner and Old French pensionnier, from Medieval Latin pēnsiōnārius. Surface etymology is pension +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛnʃənɚ/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛnʃənə/
Hyphenation: pen‧sion‧er

Noun

pensioner (plural pensioners)

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.

Translations

someone who lives on a pension

Arabic: مُتَقَاعِد‎ m (mutaqāʿid)
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
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

indefinite plural of pension.