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pensionnaires

pensionnaires is the plural of pensionnaire.

Meaning of pensionnaire

Noun

pensionnaire (plural pensionnaires)

  1. (obsolete) Someone receiving a pension.
  2. Someone who boards at a lodging-house, school, or other institution; a boarder, especially in France or other European countries.
    • [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.1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC
  3. A junior member of the Comédie Française.

Questions about pensionnaires

What is pensionnaires the plural of?
Pensionnaires is the plural of pensionnaire.

Words near pensionnaires in the dictionary

  1. pensioni
  2. pensioning
  3. pensioning off
  4. pensionless
  5. pensionnaire
  6. pensionnaires
  7. pensions
  8. pensions off
  9. pensive
  10. pensively
  11. pensiveness

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