beggar
Meaning of beggar
noun
- a person, typically a homeless one, who lives by asking for money or food.
- a person of a specified type, especially one to be envied or pitied.
poor little beggars
- 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.
- Languages in which beggar is used:
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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:
Meaning pauperize:
Meaning a person who travels from place to place on foot in search of work or as a vagrant or beggar:
Meaning a man, typically a homeless one, who lives by asking for money or food:
Meaning a woman, typically a homeless one, who lives by asking for money or food:
Meaning a person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging:
Meaning a person who wanders from place to place without a home or job:
Meaning a person without a home, job, or property:
Meaning a very poor person:
Meaning a homeless person; a tramp or vagrant:
Meaning a person who borrows from or lives off others:
Meaning a person who lives at others' expense:
Meaning a person who takes advantage of others' generosity without giving anything in return:
Meaning a young person who is homeless or travels constantly, has a shabby appearance, and rejects conventional values:
Meaning a person who sleeps rough; a tramp:
Meaning a vagrant:
Meaning a person who lives off others without giving anything in return:
Meaning a beggar or scrounger:
Meaning a beggar or scrounger; a layabout:
Meaning an agent who collects or distributes the proceeds of illicit activities:
Meaning a person carrying a swag or bundle of belongings:
Meaning a scrounger:
Meaning (in France) a beggar; a vagrant:
Meaning a man or boy:
Meaning used to express one's feelings of pity, affection, approval, or contempt for a person or animal:
Meaning a person of a specified kind:
Meaning the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal:
Meaning the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual:
Meaning an unfortunate or unhappy person:
Meaning a human being regarded as an individual:
Meaning an adult male human being:
Meaning an adult female human being:
Meaning a male child or youth:
Meaning a female child:
Meaning a man:
Meaning non-standard spelling of fellow, used in representing speech in various dialects:
Meaning a person with specified characteristics:
Meaning a child's term for a rabbit:
Meaning an unpleasant or despicable person:
Meaning a cracked or sore patch on the skin:
Meaning used as a term of abuse, typically for a man:
Meaning the surface of the ground, with the grass growing on it; turf:
Meaning a body:
Meaning a man; a guy (often as a form of address):
Meaning a man, especially one of a particular type:
Meaning the physical structure, including the bones, flesh, and organs, of a person or an animal:
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:
Meaning a small sheltered bay:
Meaning make (a person or area) poor:
Meaning reduce (a person or organization) to bankruptcy:
Meaning reduce to a state of poverty:
Meaning separate or cause to separate into pieces as a result of a blow, shock, or strain:
Meaning cause severe and disabling damage to; deprive of the ability to function normally:
Translation of beggar
- German: Bettlerin, Bettler, pauperisieren
- Spanish: mendigo, mendiga, empobrecer, pauperizar
- Italian: accattone, mendicante, impoverire, depauperare
- French: mendiant, appauvrir, paupériser
- Portuguese: mendigo
Anagrams of beggar
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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