Commoner \Com"mon*er\, n.
   1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.
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            All below them [the peers] even their children, were
            commoners, and in the eye of the law equal to each
            other.                                --Hallam.
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   2. A member of the House of Commons.
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   3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
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            Much good land might be gained from forests . . .
            and from other commonable places, so as always there
            be a due care taken that the poor commoners have no
            injury.                               --Bacon.
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   4. One sharing with another in anything. [Obs.] --Fuller.
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   5. A student in the university of Oxford, Eng., who is not
      dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all
      university charges; - - at Cambridge called a pensioner.
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   6. A prostitute. [Obs.] --Shak.
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	Pensioner \Pen"sion*er\, n.
   1. One in receipt of a pension; hence, figuratively, a
      dependent.
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            The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. --Milton.
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            Old pensioners . . . of Chelsea Hospital.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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   2. One of an honorable band of gentlemen who attend the
      sovereign of England on state occasions, and receive an
      annual pension, or allowance, of [pounds]150 and two
      horses.
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   3. [Cf. F. pensionnaire one who pays for his board. Cf.
      Pensionary, n.] In the university of Cambridge, England,
      one who pays for his living in commons; -- corresponding
      to commoner at Oxford. --Ld. Lytton.
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	pensioner
    n 1: the beneficiary of a pension fund [syn: pensioner,
         pensionary]

	

	47 Moby Thesaurus words for "pensioner":
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   assistant, beneficiary, charge, client, commoner, dependent,
   devisee, donee, employee, encumbrance, exhibitioner, feoffee,
   girl Friday, golden-ager, grantee, hired hand, hired man, hireling,
   legatary, legatee, man Friday, mercenary, myrmidon, optime,
   passman, patentee, pensionary, protege, public charge, questionist,
   right-hand man, senior citizen, servitor, sizar, sophister,
   stipendiary, veteran, ward, worker, wrangler, wrinkly

	

	PENSIONER. One who is supported by an allowance at the will of another. It 
is more usually applied to him who receives an annuity or pension from the 
government.