pensioner

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pen=sion=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

pensioner, n. 

•  One in receipt of a pension; hence, figuratively, a dependent.  [1913 Webster]

  "The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train."  [1913 Webster]

  "Old pensioners . . . of Chelsea Hospital."  [1913 Webster]
•  One of an honorable band of gentlemen who attend the sovereign of England on state occasions, and receive an annual pension, or allowance, of £150 and two horses.  [1913 Webster]
•  In the university of Cambridge, England, one who pays for his living in commons; -- corresponding to commoner at Oxford.  Ld. Lytton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pensioner, n. a recipient of a pension, esp. the retirement pension.

Etymology

ME f. AF pensionner, OF pensionnier (as PENSION(1))

THESAURUS

pensioner

allottee, almsman, almswoman, annuitant, assign, assignee, assistant, beneficiary, charge, client, commoner, dependent, devisee, donee, employee, encumbrance, exhibitioner, feoffee, girl Friday, golden-ager, grantee, hired hand, hired man, hireling, legatary, legatee, man Friday, mercenary, myrmidon, optime, passman, patentee, pensionary, protege, public charge, questionist, right-hand man, senior citizen, servitor, sizar, sophister, stipendiary, veteran, ward, worker, wrangler, wrinkly

ROGET THESAURUS

pensioner

Servant

N servant, subject, liegeman, servant, retainer, follower, henchman, servitor, domestic, menial, help, lady help, employe, attache, official, retinue, suite, cortege, staff, court, attendant, squire, usher, page, donzel, footboy, train bearer, cup bearer, waiter, lapster, butler, livery servant, lackey, footman, flunky, flunkey, valet, valet de chambre, equerry, groom, jockey, hostler, ostler, tiger, orderly, messenger, cad, gillie, herdsman, swineherd, barkeeper, bartender, bell boy, boots, boy, counterjumper, khansamah, khansaman, khitmutgar, yardman, bailiff, castellan, seneschal, chamberlain, major-domo, groom of the chambers, secretary, under secretary, assistant secretary, clerk, subsidiary, agent, subaltern, underling, understrapper, man, maid, maidservant, handmaid, confidente, lady's maid, abigail, soubrette, amah, biddy, nurse, bonne, ayah, nursemaid, nursery maid, house maid, parlor maid, waiting maid, chamber maid, kitchen maid, scullery maid, femme de chambre, femme fille, camarista, chef de cuisine, cordon bleu, cook, scullion, Cinderella, potwalloper, maid of all work, servant of all work, laundress, bedmaker, journeyman, charwoman, bearer, chokra, gyp (Cambridge), hamal, scout (Oxford), serf, vassal, slave, negro, helot, bondsman, bondswoman, bondslave, ame damnee, odalisque, ryot, adscriptus gleboe, villian, villein, beadsman, bedesman, sizar, pensioner, pensionary, client, dependant, dependent, hanger on, satellite, parasite, led captain, protege, ward, hireling, mercenary, puppet, tool, creature, badge of slavery, bonds, in the train of, in one's pay, in one's employ, at one's call, in bonds.

Receiving

N receiving, acquisition, reception, suscipiency, acceptance, admission, recipient, accipient, assignee, devisee, legatee, legatary, grantee, feoffee, donee, releasee, relessee, lessee, receiver, sportulary, stipendiary, beneficiary, pensioner, pensionary, almsman, income, receiving, recipient, suscipient, received, given, secondhand, not given, unbestowed &c (give), (bestow).