Beggary

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Extreme poverty; penury.
  • n. The state or condition of being a beggar.
  • n. Beggars considered as a group.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The state of a beggar; indigence, extreme poverty.
  • n. The fact or action of begging.
  • adj. beggarly
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty.
  • n. Beggarly appearance.
  • adj. Beggarly.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state of a beggar; a condition of extreme indigence.
  • n. The act or practice of begging; the occupation of a beggar; begging.
  • n. Beggars collectively; beggardom; beggarhood.
  • n. A state of bareness or deficiency.
  • Beggarly; poor; mean.
  • 2. Full of weeds.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
  • n. the state of being a beggar or mendicant
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    solicitation    need    pauperization    indigence    pauperism    penury   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    indigence    mendicancy    penury    want    beggarly    begging   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts