Synonyms for beggar

Grammar : Noun

Spell : beg-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbɛg ər

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Définition of beggar

Origin : c.1200, from Old French begart, originally a member of the Beghards, lay brothers of mendicants in the Low Countries, from Middle Dutch beggaert "mendicant," of uncertain origin, with pejorative suffix (see -ard). Cf. Beguine. Early folk etymology connected the English word with bag. Form with -ar attested from 14c., but begger was more usual 15c.-17c. The feminine form beggestere is attested as a surname from c.1300. Beggar's velvet was an old name for "dust bunnies." "Beggers should be no choosers" is in Heywood (1562).

noun person asking for charity
noun person in financial trouble

Example sentences :

In reply he offers me, as if I were a beggar, employment for my sons.
Extract from : « The Raid From Beausejour; And How The Carter Boys Lifted The Mortgage » by Charles G. D. Roberts

I can only attribute it to the love interest associated with the beggar.
Extract from : « Yorkshire Painted And Described » by Gordon Home

And is not the whole land like a beggar on horseback riding post to the Davil?
Extract from : « Old News » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Though I thank you heartily all the same; it would be a shame at my age to be a beggar.
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Must a man be a beggar because he is run over, or because he is half blind?
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

By degrees, most of the food on the table was in the beggar's bag.
Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis

And now we will see what befell Robin Hood in his venture as beggar.
Extract from : « The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood » by Howard Pyle

"Why, mayhap there is some other cold fare therein," said the Beggar slyly.
Extract from : « The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood » by Howard Pyle

"Friend, thou hast said enough," said the Beggar, getting down from the stile.
Extract from : « The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood » by Howard Pyle

That I flatly refused to do, for it would have made a beggar of me.
Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore

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