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POOR PEOPLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
People without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
Example:
the urban poor need assistance
Synonyms:
poor; poor people
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("poor people" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poor people"):
homeless (poor people who unfortunately do not have a home to live in)
needy (needy people collectively)
Antonym:
rich people (people who have possessions and wealth (considered as a group))
