pensionnaireEtymologyFrom Middle French pensionnaire, pensionaire.pensionnaire means someone receiving a pension. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.nounSomeone receiving a pension.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.”A junior member of the Comédie Française.