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BEGGARY

Dictionary entry overview: What does beggary mean?

• BEGGARY (noun)
The noun BEGGARY has 2 senses:

1. a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
2. the state of being a beggar or mendicant

Familiarity information: BEGGARY used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• BEGGARY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

beggary; begging; mendicancy

Hypernyms ("beggary" is a kind of...):

solicitation (an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

The state of being a beggar or mendicant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

mendicancy; mendicity; beggary

Context example:

they were reduced to mendicancy

Hypernyms ("beggary" is a kind of...):

indigence; need; pauperism; pauperization; penury (a state of extreme poverty or destitution)

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