PENSIONER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pensioner mean? 

• PENSIONER (noun)
  The noun PENSIONER has 1 sense:

1. the beneficiary of a pension fund

  Familiarity information: PENSIONER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PENSIONER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The beneficiary of a pension fund

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

pensionary; pensioner

Hypernyms ("pensioner" is a kind of...):

beneficiary; donee (the recipient of funds or other benefits)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pensioner"):

old-age pensioner (an old person who receives an old-age pension)

Derivation:

pension (grant a pension to)

 Context examples 

Mortimer, the gardener, who wheels the Bath chair, is an army pensioner—an old Crimean man of excellent character.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘My name,’ said he, ‘is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)