Definitions for pauper

pauper pau·per

Spelling: [paw-per]
IPA: /ˈpɔ pər/

Pauper 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 82 anagrams from letters in pauper (aeppru).

Definitions for pauper

noun

  1. a person without any means of support, especially a destitute person who depends on aid from public welfare funds or charity.
  2. a very poor person.

Origin of pauper

1485-95; Latin: poor

Examples for pauper

We have witnessed also the development of the pauper and criminal classes.

Yes, he said; nearly everybody is a pauper who is not a ruler.

Even in his native town, he seldom had other than pauper cases to defend.

He returned home a pauper without a pension and 50 years later, at 70, chronicled the travails of the War of Independence.

I can only say, that, pauper as I am, I would not exchange places with the one who has done this deed.

And indeed I don't know whether he had not been a pauper all his life.

So, the prince in the old saying “eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper” might need to retire.

Now, it's my idea that, long's he's bound to be a pauper, he might's well be treated as a pauper.

I should deserve to be the pauper that I am if such had been my habits.

It was only the beginning of The Prince and the pauper productions.

Word Value for pauper
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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