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Webster 1913 Edition

Pension

Pen′sion

,
Noun.
[F., fr. L.
pensio
a paying, payment, fr.
pendere
,
pensum
, to weight, to pay; akin to
pend[GREEK]re
to hang. See
Pendant
, and cf.
Spend
.]
1.
A payment; a tribute; something paid or given.
[Obs.]
The stomach’s
pension
, and the time's expense.
Sylvester.
2.
A stated allowance to a person in consideration of past services; payment made to one retired from service, on account of age, disability, or other cause; also, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the families of soldiers killed in service, or to meritorious authors, or the like.
To all that kept the city
pensions
and wages.
1 Esd. iv. 56.
3.
A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes.
[Eng.]
Mozley & W.
4.
[F., pronounced
[GREEK]
.]
A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.

Pen′sion

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Pensioned
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Pensioning
.]
To grant a pension to; to pay a regular stipend to; in consideration of service already performed; – sometimes followed by off;
as, to
pension
off a servant
.
One knighted Blackmore, and one
pensioned
Quarles.
Pope.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pension

PEN'SION

,
Noun.
[L.pensio, form pendo, pensum, to pay.]
1.
An annual allowance of a sum of money to a person by government in consideration of past services, civil or military. Men often receive pensions for eminent services on retiring from office. But in particular, officers, soldiers and seamen receive pensions when they are disabled for further services.
2.
An annual payment by an individual to an old or disabled servant.
3.
In Great Britain, an annual allowance made by government to indigent widows of officers killed or dying in public service.
4.
Payment of money; rent.
5.
A yearly payment in the inns of court.
6.
A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes.
7.
An allowance or annual payment, considered in the light of a bribe.

PEN'SION

,
Verb.
T.
To grant a pension to; to grant an annual allowance from the public treasury to a person for past services, or on account of disability incurred in public service, or of old age.

Definition 2024

Pension

Pension

See also: pension and pensión

German

Noun

Pension f ‎(genitive Pension, plural Pensionen)

  1. (boarding house or public service retirement benefit) pension

Synonyms

pension

pension

See also: Pension and pensión

English

Noun

pension ‎(plural pensions)

  1. (obsolete) A wage or fee. [14th-19th c.]
  2. (obsolete) A charge or expense of some kind; a tax. [14th-17th c.]
  3. (now historical) A regular allowance paid to support a royal favourite, or as patronage of an artist or scholar. [from 16th c.]
  4. An annuity paid regularly as benefit due to a retired employee, serviceman etc. in consideration of past services, originally and chiefly by a government but also by various private pension schemes. [from 16th c.]
    Many old people depend on their pension to pay the bills.
  5. A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services. [from 17th c.]
    A pension had somewhat less to offer than a hotel; it was always smaller, and never elegant; it sometimes offered breakfast, and sometimes not (John Irving).
  6. (obsolete) A boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.

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Translations

Verb

pension ‎(third-person singular simple present pensions, present participle pensioning, simple past and past participle pensioned) (transitive)

  1. To grant a pension
  2. To force someone to retire on a pension.

Synonyms

  • (to force to retire): pension off

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Translations

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology

Borrowing from French pension, itself from Latin pensio ‎(“payment, rent”), from pensus, the past participle of pendere ‎(“to weigh, pay”).

Noun

pension n ‎(plural pensions, diminutive pensionnetje n)

  1. A pension, boarding house
  2. A regularly made payment, as admission to certain boarding establishments
  3. The services such establishment provides, notably lodging and some meals

Derived terms

  • pensionboerderij
  • pensiongast m
  • pensionhouder m
  • half pension n
  • vol pension n

Related terms

Esperanto

Noun

pension

  1. accusative singular of pensio

French

Etymology

From Old French pension, panssion, a borrowing from Latin pēnsiō, pēnsiōnem ‎(“payment, rent”), from pensus, the past participle of pendō ‎(“weigh, pay”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pension f ‎(plural pensions)

  1. A pension, regularly received payment
    pension à taux plein‎
    full pension
  2. A pension, boarding house
  3. A regularly made payment, as admission to certain boarding establishments (notably schools)
  4. board; (The services such establishment provides, notably lodging and some meals)

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Anagrams

Old French

Noun

pension f ‎(oblique plural pensions, nominative singular pension, nominative plural pensions)

  1. Alternative form of panssion

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

pension c

  1. pension, retirement
    att gå i pension‎
    to retire
  2. pension, periodic payments from a retirement fund
  3. pension, accommodation

Declension

Inflection of pension 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative pension pensionen pensioner pensionerna
Genitive pensions pensionens pensioners pensionernas

Related terms

See also

  • änkekassa
  • pantertant
  • passion
  • pupillkassa

Venetian

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin pēnsiō, pēnsiōnem. Compare Italian pensione

Noun

pension f ‎(invariable)

  1. pension

Etymology

Borrowing from French pension, ultimately from Latin pēnsiō, pēnsiōnem.

Pronunciation

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