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Definition: BEGGARED |
BEGGAREDImperative & past participle1. Of Beggar |
Date "BEGGARED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1609. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Nonpayment | Adjective: not paying, non-paying, non-performing; in debt; behindhand, in arrear, behind in payments, in arrears; beggared; (poor); unable to make both ends meet, minus; worse than nothing; worthless. |
Poverty | Adjective: poor, indigent; poverty-stricken; badly off, poorly off, ill off; poor as a rat, poor as a church mouse, poor as a Job; fortuneless, dowerless, moneyless, penniless; unportioned, unmoneyed; impecunious; out of money, out of cash, short of money, short of cash; without a rap, not worth a rap;(money); qui n'a pas le sou, out of pocket, hard up; out at elbows, out at heels; seedy, bare-footed; beggarly, beggared; destitute; fleeced, stripped; bereft, bereaved; reduced; homeless. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "BEGGARED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "BEGGARED" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 50% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 40% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "BEGGARED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | fillér nélkül hagy vkit (to leave sy beggared). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eggaredbay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Bidens cernua L., Bidens frondosa L., Bidens melanocarpa Wieg., Ranunculus arvensis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"BEGGARED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Begara, beggard, bergader, Bergeret, Berggren, Bigard, bigarrade, Bogaerde, bogeared, bongarde. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-g-g-r" | |
-1 letter: bragged. | |
-2 letters: agreed, badger, bagged, bagger, barege, barged, bargee, beggar, begged, dagger, degage, dragee, garbed, geared, ragged, raggee, reggae. | |
-3 letters: agger, agree, ardeb, badge, barde, bared, barge, beard, bread, brede, breed, debar, eager, eagre, eared, edger, eggar, egged, egger, gaged, gager, grade, grebe, greed, raged, ragee. | |
-4 letters: abed, aged, agee, ager, bade, bard, bare. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-g-g-r" | |
+1 letter: bedraggle. | |
+2 letters: bedraggled, bedraggles, beggarweed. | |
+3 letters: beggarweeds, gingerbread. | |
+4 letters: gingerbreads, gingerbready. | |
+5 letters: gingerbreaded. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 45 47 47 41 52 45 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . --. --. .- .-. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000101 01000111 01000111 01000001 01010010 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B E G G A R E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0045 0047 0047 0041 0052 0045 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3639414135523938 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Translations: Ancient | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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