Definitions for beggars

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beggars beg·gar

Spelling: [beg-er]

IPA: /ˈbɛg ər/

Beggars is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 170 anagrams from letters in beggars (abeggrs).

Definitions for beggars

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 beggars

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

Examples for beggars

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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