Definitions for beggar

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beggar beg·gar

Spelling: [beg-er]

IPA: /ˈbɛg ər/

Beggar is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in beggar (abeggr).

Definitions for beggar

noun

1. a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
2. a penniless person.
3. a wretched fellow; rogue:
4. a child or youngster (usually preceded by little):

verb (used with object)

1. to reduce to utter poverty; impoverish:
2. to cause one's resources of or ability for (description, comparison, etc.) to seem poor or inadequate:

Origin of beggar

First recorded in 1175-1225, beggar is from the Middle English word beggare, beggere. See beg¹, -er¹, -

Examples for beggar

Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, Indian chief, and all that.

I can only attribute it to the love interest associated with the beggar.

Must a man be a beggar because he is run over, or because he is half blind?

In an interview, Liang said, “Air should be the most valueless commodity, free to breathe for any vagrant or beggar.”

Better to be a beggar in freedom,” he cried out, “than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.

And is not the whole land like a beggar on horseback riding post to the Davil?

The landays in I Am the beggar of the World are sung only when men are absent.

Though I thank you heartily all the same; it would be a shame at my age to be a beggar.

In reply he offers me, as if I were a beggar, employment for my sons.

I am the beggar of the World is a book of poems, war reportage, and photographs.