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pensionhouse

pensionhouse is the alternative form 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

Forms of pensionhouse

pluralpensionhouses

Questions about pensionhouse

What is pensionhouse the alternative form of?
Pensionhouse is the alternative form of pension house.

Words near pensionhouse in the dictionary

  1. pensioner
  2. pensioners
  3. pensionership
  4. pensionerships
  5. pensiones
  6. pensionhouse
  7. pensionhouses
  8. pensioni
  9. pensioning
  10. pensioning off
  11. pensionless

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