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Poverty Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Poverty? [n] the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions Synonyms \| Synonyms for Poverty: impoverishment \| poorness Related Terms \| Find terms related to Poverty: beggary \| dearth \| destitution \| difficulty \| distress \| embarrassment \| exigency \| hand-to-mouth existence \| hardship \| impecuniousness \| impoverishment \| inadequacy \| indigence \| insolvency \| insufficiency \| juncture \| lack \| mendicancy \| necessity \| need \| neediness \| pass \| paucity \| pauperism \| pennilessness \| penury \| pinch \| poorness \| privation \| rareness \| rarity \| scant \| scant sufficiency \| scantiness \| scarceness \| scarcity \| shortage \| sparseness \| sparsity \| strait \| suffering \| uncommonness \| unprosperousness \| want See Also \| beggary \| deprivation \| destitution \| economic condition \| financial condition \| impecuniousness \| indigence \| need \| pauperism \| pauperization \| pennilessness \| penuriousness \| penury \| privation \| want Poverty In Webster's Dictionary \Pov"erty\ (p[o^]v"[~e]rt[y^]), n. [OE. poverte, OF. povert['e], F. pauvret['e], fr. L. paupertas, fr. pauper poor. See {Poor}.] 1. The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need. ``Swathed in numblest poverty.'' --Keble. The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty. --Prov. xxiii. 21. 2. Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas. {Poverty grass} (Bot.), a name given to several slender grasses (as {Aristida dichotoma}, and {Danthonia spicata}) which often spring up on old and worn-out fields. Syn: Indigence; penury; beggary; need; lack; want; scantiness; sparingness; meagerness; jejuneness. Usage: {Poverty}, {Indigence}, {Pauperism}. Poverty is a relative term; what is poverty to a monarch, would be competence for a day laborer. Indigence implies extreme distress, and almost absolute destitution. Pauperism denotes entire dependence upon public charity, and, therefore, often a hopeless and degraded state.

Poverty Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Poverty?

[n] the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

Synonyms | Synonyms for Poverty: impoverishment | poorness

Poverty In Webster's Dictionary

\Pov"er*ty\ (p[o^]v"[~e]r*t[y^]), n. [OE. poverte, OF.
povert['e], F. pauvret['e], fr. L. paupertas, fr. pauper
poor. See {Poor}.]
1. The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or
   scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
   ``Swathed in numblest poverty.'' --Keble.

         The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty.
                                               --Prov. xxiii.
                                               21.

2. Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or
   desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil;
   poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.

{Poverty grass} (Bot.), a name given to several slender
   grasses (as {Aristida dichotoma}, and {Danthonia spicata})
   which often spring up on old and worn-out fields.

Syn: Indigence; penury; beggary; need; lack; want;
     scantiness; sparingness; meagerness; jejuneness.

Usage: {Poverty}, {Indigence}, {Pauperism}. Poverty is a
       relative term; what is poverty to a monarch, would be
       competence for a day laborer. Indigence implies
       extreme distress, and almost absolute destitution.
       Pauperism denotes entire dependence upon public
       charity, and, therefore, often a hopeless and degraded
       state.

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