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POOR PERSON

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• POOR PERSON (noun)
The noun POOR PERSON has 1 sense:

1. a person with few or no possessions

Familiarity information: POOR PERSON used as a noun is very rare.

• POOR PERSON (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A person with few or no possessions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

have-not; poor person

Hypernyms ("poor person" is a kind of...):

unfortunate; unfortunate person (a person who suffers misfortune)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poor person"):

down-and-out (a person who is destitute)

pauper; poor man (a person who is very poor)

drifter; floater; vagabond; vagrant (a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support)

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