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PAUPER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is very poor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

have-not; poor person (a person with few or no possessions)

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

beggar; mendicant (a pauper who lives by begging)

derelict (a person without a home, job, or property)

starveling (someone who is starving (or being starved))

Derivation:

pauperize (reduce to beggary)

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