beggar
beggar adj
see beg, v.
- Poor; impoverished; indigent; hungry; needy.
beggar [-s, -'s] n
see beg, v.
- Mourner; bereaved person; one who has lost a loved one; someone standing in need of comfort.
- Almsman; indigent; mendicant; destitute soul; individual without assets; person with little or no money; one who has no means of temporal support; (see Luke 16:20-22).
- Hungry person; person with little or no food.
- Hungry bird; dependent creature; one who relies on providence for sustenance.
- Supplicant; petitioner; one who asks insistently.
- Commoner; pauper; mundane citizen; ordinary human being; person of the lowest socio-economic status; (see 1 Samuel 2:8).
- Suitor; unrequited devotee; one pursuing romance.
beggar [-ed, -s] v
see beg, v.
- Impoverish; ruin financially; cause one to become poor.