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1. (n.) poverty
the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor; indigence.
2. poverty
deficiency of necessary or desirable ingredients, qualities, etc.
3. poverty
scantiness; insufficiency.
Etymology: (1125–75; ME poverte < OF < L paupertātem, acc. of paupertās. See pauper , -ty2)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) poverty, poorness, impoverishment
the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
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1. (noun) poverty
≠ wealth
people living in poverty; a life of poverty
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) poverty
the quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need
2. (noun) poverty
any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas
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U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. poverty
A situation in which the level of living of an individual, family, or group is below the standard of the community. It is often related to a specific income level.
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Sense: the condition of being poor
They lived in extreme poverty; the poverty of the soil.
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 Afrikaans: armoede |
 Arabic: فَقْر |
 Bulgarian: бедност |
 Brazilian: pobreza |
 Czech: chudoba |
 German: die Armut |
 Danish: fattigdom |
 Greek: φτώχεια |
 Spanish: pobreza |
 Estonian: vaesus |
 Farsi: فقر |
 Finnish: köyhyys |
 French: pauvreté |
 Hebrew: עוֹנִי |
 Hindi: गरीबी |
 Croatian: siromaštvo, oskudica |
 Hungarian: szegénység |
 Indonesian: kemiskinan |
 Icelandic: fátækt |
 Italian: povertà |
 Japanese: 貧困 |
 Korean: 가난 |
 Lithuanian: skurdas, skurdumas |
 Latvian: nabadzība; (zemes) neaugl |
 Malay: kemiskinan |
 Dutch: armoede |
 Norwegian: fattigdom; (jordas) ufruk |
 Polish: ubóstwo |
 Persian: فقر |
 Pashto: نيستى، خوارى، فقر |
 Portuguese: pobreza |
 Romanian: sărăcie |
 Russian: бедность |
 Slovak: chudoba |
 Slovenian: revščina |
 Serbian: siromaštvo |
 Swedish: fattigdom |
 Thai: ความจน |
 Turkish: yoksulluk |
 Taiwanese: 貧窮 |
 Ukrainian: бідність, злидні |
 Urdu: غربت، محتاجي |
 Vietnamese: sự nghèo đói |
 Chinese: 贫穷 |
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