pauper
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- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 6
/ˈpɔː.pə/
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/ˈpɔː.pə/ · /ˈpɔ.pɚ/ · /ˈpɑ.pɚ/(US) · /ˈpɒ.pɚ/(US) · /ˈpoː.pə/
Definition of pauper
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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One who is extremely poor.
“He has hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bank, and he lives like a pauper!”
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noun
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One who is extremely poor.
“He has hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bank, and he lives like a pauper!”
- One living on or eligible for public charity.
verb
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(transitive)To make a pauper of; to drive into poverty.
““There’s no sense in you paupering yourself because you’re too stubborn to take my money.” ¶ “I’m not paupering myself.””
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin pauper (“poor”). Originally a legal term. Doublet of poor.
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