tontine

1. 1.

   a form of life insurance whereby on the death or default of a participant his share is distributed to the remaining members

   Synonymstontine insurance

   Broaderlife insurance
2. 2.

   an annuity scheme wherein participants share certain benefits and on the death of any participant his benefits are redistributed among the remaining participants; can run for a fixed period of time or until the death of all but one participant

   Broaderannuity

Other forms of tontine

plural

tontines·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tontine

What does tontine mean?

tontine means "a form of life insurance whereby on the death or default of a participant his share is distributed to the remaining members". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tontine?

tontine has 2 syllables: ton-tine. The stress falls on "ton".

What is another word for tontine?

Close synonyms include tontine insurance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tontine a common word?

tontine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.