Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. beggar, mendicant(verb)

   a pauper who lives by begging

2. beggar(verb)

   be beyond the resources of

   "This beggars description!"

3. beggar, pauperize, pauperise(verb)

   reduce to beggary

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. beggar(Noun)

   A person who begs.

2. beggar(Noun)

   A person suffering from extreme poverty.

3. beggar(Verb)

   To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.

4. beggar(Verb)

   To exhaust the resources of; to outdo.

Origin: From begart, originally a member of the Beghards, a lay brotherhood of mendicants in the Low Countries, from beggaert "mendicant," with pejorative suffix; the order is said to be named after the Liege priest Lambert le Bègue (French for "Lambert the Stammerer"); others claim it's from beggere or beggare, from beggen + -are

Webster Dictionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Beggar(noun)

   one who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner

2. Beggar(noun)

   one who makes it his business to ask alms

3. Beggar(noun)

   one who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use

4. Beggar(noun)

   one who assumes in argument what he does not prove

5. Beggar(verb)

   to reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself

6. Beggar(verb)

   to cause to seem very poor and inadequate

The Roycroft Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. beggar

   A robber who has lost his nerve--a bandit with a streak of yellow in his ego.

Anagrams for beggar »

1. bagger

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of beggar in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of beggar in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

1. Prakash Adhikari:

   Human beings are unsatisfied beggar.

2. Charles Lamb:

   The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

3. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

4. Vikrant Parsai:

   For the beggar, everything is always out of fashion.

5. Anuj Somany:

   Bigger the beggar before God, the better his/her financial position.

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