pensionaries

Meaning of pensionaries

plural noun
  1. a leading town official in the Netherlands during the 14th–18th centuries.
  2. a person who receives a pension.
    she was a pensionary of the family

late 15th century (in sense ‘paying a pension’): from pension1 + -ary1, after medieval Latin pensionarius ‘paying a pension’.

Information about pensionaries

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of pensionaries is: pensionary.
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Hyphenation of pensionaries

pen-sion-ar-ies

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 12 chars.
  • pensionaries is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

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