beggar
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- noun
- /ˈbɛɡər/
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mendigo
- Many pedestrians hurried past the beggar sitting on the corner, hoping for a few coins.
- a blind beggar
- a starving beggar
- street beggars
And the theme of beggars can't be choosers is always there.
- And the theme of beggars can't be choosers is always there.
- The only catch is it's static, but beggars can't be choosers, I guess.
- And so beggars can't be choosers, honey, apparently.
- And so I realized that this man was not a beggar.
- It's interesting Jesus told the story about Lazarus and the beggar.
- And then you just you are less attractive as a beggar, which is what you become, a supplicant.
- You work with the begging ball amongst other beggars.
Examples
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But the people have a proverb, which is very close to "Beggars can't be choosers."
Fiction book (1993) -
We'd be forced to live like beggars.
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Now help me not to be a beggar anymore.
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Do you think it's helpful to give a beggar fifty pence?
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Never before did we have beggars on the street, in subway tunnels, in train stations.
Academic text (1991) -
I'm sitting on the balcony, and there's a blind beggar with a little girl guiding him.
Fiction book (1990) -
"For a ruble?" The beggar dug a change purse from his shirt and produced a coin.
Fiction book (1992) -
My mother told me that in India, the beggars are surrounded by an unattainable food source: the cows.
Academic text (2008) -
Then winter light in a doorway and on the stone doorstep A beggar shivering in silhouette.
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The kind woman stopped to give some food to the beggar who looked hungry and cold.
Synonyms
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7.7
A person who has no home and moves from place to place, often begging
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9.9
An old word for a person who begs for food or money
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7.4
A person who asks strangers for money in public places
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A person who often asks others for money or food without giving anything back
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9.9
A person who lives by begging for money or food
A man who asks people for money or food on the street
A woman who asks people for money or food in public places
Antonyms
Compounds
- US
A plant with yellow flowers and small prickly fruits that stick to fur or clothing
A two-player card game where each player tries to win all the other player's cards
- Literature
A plan by one country to help itself by hurting other countries' trade
- Literature
A plan to help one country by hurting other countries' trade
A plant with yellow flowers from Europe and Asia whose seeds have small hooks that stick to fur and clothes
- Specialized
A plant that grows in wet places with yellow flowers and seeds that stick to clothes
A plant found in wet places with leaves in three parts and small yellow flowers whose seeds stick to clothes
How Poor
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Beggar comes from the simple verb beg, which means 'to ask', so a beggar is literally someone who asks others for money or food.