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pension houses

pension houses is the plural of pension house.

Meaning of pension house

Noun

pension house (plural pension houses)

  1. A home for the elderly; an old folks' home.
    • Nowadays, Consonno is inhabitated by the guests of an elders' pensionhouse and the only family who has survived the 1960's and 1970's relocation programs: a status of ghost town which has somewhat avoided a large health problem, […]2007, Franco Alessandro Cavalleri, Our Common Future. 20 years after.
  2. A lodging which is usually less exquisite and thus more affordable than a hotel.
    • There is, besides, the H. de Bains, in a garden by the riverside, the resort of persons drinking the waters of a mineral spring; it is a sort of Pensionhouse and Inn.1884, John Murray, A Handbook for Travellers in France

Questions about pension houses

What is pension houses the plural of?
Pension houses is the plural of pension house.

Words near pension houses in the dictionary

  1. pension book
  2. pension books
  3. pension fund
  4. pension funds
  5. pension house
  6. pension houses
  7. pension off
  8. pension plan
  9. pensionable
  10. pensionably
  11. pensionaries

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