beggar

Meaning of beggar

noun
  1. a person, typically a homeless one, who lives by asking for money or food.
  2. a person of a specified type, especially one to be envied or pitied.
    poor little beggars
verb
  1. reduce (someone) to poverty.
    why should I beggar myself for you?

Middle English: from beg + -ar3.

Information about beggar

  • The plural form of beggar is: beggars.
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Hyphenation of beggar

beg-gar

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • beggar is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

beggar synonyms

Meaning mendicant:

mendicant

Meaning pauperize:

pauperize

Meaning a person who travels from place to place on foot in search of work or as a vagrant or beggar:

tramp

Meaning a man, typically a homeless one, who lives by asking for money or food:

beggarman

Meaning a woman, typically a homeless one, who lives by asking for money or food:

beggarwoman

Meaning a person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging:

vagrant

Meaning a person who wanders from place to place without a home or job:

vagabond

Meaning a person without a home, job, or property:

derelict

Meaning a very poor person:

pauper

Meaning a homeless person; a tramp or vagrant:

hobo

Meaning a person who borrows from or lives off others:

scrounger

Meaning a person who lives at others' expense:

sponger

Meaning a person who takes advantage of others' generosity without giving anything in return:

freeloader

Meaning a young person who is homeless or travels constantly, has a shabby appearance, and rejects conventional values:

crusty

Meaning a person who sleeps rough; a tramp:

dosser

Meaning a vagrant:

bum

Meaning a person who lives off others without giving anything in return:

moocher

Meaning a beggar or scrounger:

mooch

Meaning a beggar or scrounger; a layabout:

schnorrer

Meaning an agent who collects or distributes the proceeds of illicit activities:

bagman

Meaning a person carrying a swag or bundle of belongings:

swagman

Meaning a scrounger:

bludger

Meaning (in France) a beggar; a vagrant:

clochard

Meaning a man or boy:

fellow

Meaning used to express one's feelings of pity, affection, approval, or contempt for a person or animal:

thing

Meaning a person of a specified kind:

individual, creature, wight

Meaning the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal:

soul

Meaning the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual:

character

Meaning an unfortunate or unhappy person:

wretch

Meaning a human being regarded as an individual:

person

Meaning an adult male human being:

man

Meaning an adult female human being:

woman

Meaning a male child or youth:

boy

Meaning a female child:

girl

Meaning a man:

guy, bloke

Meaning non-standard spelling of fellow, used in representing speech in various dialects:

fella

Meaning a person with specified characteristics:

devil

Meaning a child's term for a rabbit:

bunny

Meaning an unpleasant or despicable person:

bastard

Meaning a cracked or sore patch on the skin:

chap

Meaning used as a term of abuse, typically for a man:

bugger

Meaning the surface of the ground, with the grass growing on it; turf:

sod

Meaning a body:

bod

Meaning a man; a guy (often as a form of address):

dude

Meaning a man, especially one of a particular type:

hombre

Meaning the physical structure, including the bones, flesh, and organs, of a person or an animal:

body

Meaning a domesticated carnivorous mammal that typically has a long snout, an acute sense of smell, non-retractable claws, and a barking, howling, or whining voice:

dog

Meaning a small sheltered bay:

cove

Meaning make (a person or area) poor:

impoverish

Meaning reduce (a person or organization) to bankruptcy:

bankrupt

Meaning reduce to a state of poverty:

ruin

Meaning separate or cause to separate into pieces as a result of a blow, shock, or strain:

break

Meaning cause severe and disabling damage to; deprive of the ability to function normally:

cripple

Translation of beggar

Anagrams of beggar

Bagger, bagger

Words that rhyme with beggar

Ahaggar, Haggar, daggar, jaggar, laggar, naggar, saggar, Jeggar, bullbeggar, eggar, embeggar, gallybeggar, outbeggar, rebeggar, seggar, unbeggar, luggar, muggar, nuggar

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