Definitions for beggar
ˈbɛg ərbeg·gar

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(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. beggar(Noun)

   A person who begs.

   Etymology: 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

2. beggar(Noun)

   A person suffering from extreme poverty.

   Etymology: 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

3. beggar(Verb)

   To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.

   Etymology: 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

4. beggar(Verb)

   To exhaust the resources of; to outdo.

   Etymology: 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

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1. Alex

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   Daniel

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   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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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

Examples of beggar in a Sentence

1. Vikrant Parsai:

   For the beggar, everything is always out of fashion.

2. Prakash Adhikari:

   Human beings are unsatisfied beggar.

3. Vikrant Parsai:

   When you go into the temple you are like the beggar who sits beside the temple, but if you don’t give him something then you are like the dog that sits beside the beggar.

4. Charles Lamb:

   The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

5. Earl of Kent, _The_Tragedy_of_King_Lear_:

   A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.

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