Feminine

pension

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

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pɑ̃.sjɔ̃/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old French pension, panssion, borrowed from Latin pēnsiōnem (“payment, rent”), from pensus, the past participle of pendō (“weigh, pay”).

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