pensioner

Meaning

Noun

• Someone who lives on a pension, especially the retirement or old age pension.
• Someone who is at the age at which one typically receives a pension; an elderly person.
• A student who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; at Oxford called a commoner.

Origin

• From Middle English pensioner, from Anglo-Norman pensionner and Old French pensionnier, from Medieval Latin pēnsiōnārius. surface etymology is pension + -er.