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beggar

A beggar is a poor person who asks others, or begs, for money or food. Another word for a beggar is a "panhandler," although both terms are vaguely offensive. No one wants to be a beggar.
Many people who are beggars are also homeless and haven't been able to find jobs. Sometimes people use the word in an informal, pitying way: "Poor little beggar, he works so hard!" Another informal term is "to beggar belief," as when something is so incredible that you find it hard to believe. Another expression is “beggars can’t be choosers” which means you get what you get and you don’t get upset.
Primary Meanings of
beggar
1.nv a pauper who lives by begging
2.v be beyond the resources ofFull Definitions of beggar
1n a pauper who lives by begging
Synonyms:
mendicant
Examples:
Lazarus
the diseased beggar in Jesus' parable of the rich man and the beggar
Types:
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Type of:
pauper
a person who is very poor
v reduce to beggary
Synonyms:
pauperise, pauperize
Type of:
impoverish
make poor
2
v be beyond the resources of
“This beggars description!”
Type of:
defy, refuse, resist
elude, especially in a baffling way
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Word Family
beggarbeggars
the "beggar" family
Usage Examples
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From the other beggars I hear stories about plague victims, which areas the police seem most nervous about, and which have started to recover.
Legend
Then up the block where the beggars sat.
Homesick
She wondered about the female beggar she had donated a dollar to the day before.
New York TimesApr 30, 2016
A World Bank report last year concluded that climate change could beggar 100 million more people by 2030. and then what the sound of you?