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noun
- 1. a state of extreme poverty: "they have no benefits to stand between them and beggary"
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BEGGAR definition: 1. a poor person who lives by asking others for money or food 2. a person, especially when you are…. Learn more.
noun. 1. extreme poverty or need. 2. the condition of being a beggar. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word Frequency. beggary in American English. (ˈbɛgəri ) noun Word forms: plural ˈbeggaries. 1. extreme poverty. 2. the act of begging or state of being a beggar. 3. beggars as a group.
type of: indigence, need, pauperisation, pauperism, pauperization, penury. a state of extreme poverty or destitution. noun. a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) synonyms: begging, mendicancy. see more. see less.
1. : poverty, penury. 2. : the class of beggars. 3. : the practice of begging. Synonyms. destituteness. destitution. impecuniosity. impecuniousness. impoverishment. indigence. necessity. neediness. pauperism. penuriousness. penury. poorness. poverty. want. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus.
Define beggary. beggary synonyms, beggary pronunciation, beggary translation, English dictionary definition of beggary. n. 1. Extreme poverty; penury. 2. The state or condition of being a beggar. 3. Beggars considered as a group. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English...
Beggary definition: a state or condition of utter poverty.. See examples of BEGGARY used in a sentence.
a poor person who lives by asking others for money or food. UK informal. a person, especially when you are expressing an opinion about something that they have done, or that has happened to them: You've won again, you lucky beggar. Those children have been running about in my rose garden again, the little beggars (= annoying people)!
The act of begging or state of being a beggar. Webster's New World. Beggars considered as a group. American Heritage. More Noun Definitions (4) Synonyms: mendicity. mendicancy. begging. necessitousness. want. privation. poverty. penury. penuriousness. pennilessness. indigence. impoverishment.
beggary meaning, definition, what is beggary: the state of being very poor: Learn more.
The earliest known use of the noun beggary is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for beggary is from 1377, in the writing of William Langland, poet. beggary is formed within English, by derivation.
