Pension, n.
- 1. Allowance (from a government for past services), annuity.
- 2. Boarding-house.
Pensive, a.
- 1. Thoughtful, meditative, reflective, dreamy, sober.
- 2. Expressive of sadness, sad, serious, grave, mournful, melancholy, solemn, triste.
Pentagonal, a. Five-angled, five-cornered, five-sided, pentangular, pentagonous.
Pentecost, n. Whitsuntide, Whit-Sunday, pinxter.
Pent-house, n. Lean-to.
Pent-roof, n. Shed-roof.
Penult, n. Penultima, penultimate, last syllable but one, penultimate syllable.
Penultima, Penultimate, n. See Penult.
Penurious, a.
- 1. Niggard, scanty, insufficient, inadequate, meagre, ill-provided, poor, stinted.
- 2. Parsimonious, covetous, avaricious, illiberal, miserly, niggardly, sordid, mercenary, close, stingy, mean,
close-fisted, hard-fisted, grasping, near.
Penury, n. Indigence, destitution, extreme poverty, want, need.
People, n.
- 1. Tribe, nation, race, clan, family.
- 2. Population, folks, persons, the public, the community, the bulk of mankind.
- 3. Commonalty, populace.
- 4. Rabble, mob, the vulgar, vulgar herd, lower classes, humbler classes, the multitude, the million, the
many the crowd, the masses, canaille.
- 5. Persons, men, folks (collog.).