Beggary

Definitions: Beggary

Beggary

Noun

1. A solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person).

2. A state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless".

Date "beggary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: Beggary

Synonyms: begging (n), indigence (n), mendicancy (n), need (n), pauperism (n), penury (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Poverty	Beggary; mendicancy, mendicity; broken fortune, loss of fortune; insolvency; (nonpayment).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Beggary

English words defined with "beggary": beggar, Beggarism ♦ mendicant, Mendication ♦ pauperize, Poverty grass. (references)

Author	Quotation
Aristophanes	We say that poverty is the sister of beggary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Beggary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Beggary" is used about 2 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)	100%	2	245,945

Expressions using "beggary": be reduced to beggary ♦ reduce to beggary ♦ reduced to beggary. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "beggary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		varfëri (hardship, indigence, infertility, manginess, misery, necessity, need, pauperism, penury, poorness, poverty, squalor, want), lypësit, lypësi (mendicancy, mendicity). (various references)

Arabic		‏فقر مدقع (destitution), ‏تسول (begging, cadge, mendicity, panhandle, put out, tramp), ‏عدم (mis-, negation, nil, non-, nothingness, nought), ‏إستعطاء, ‏إستجداء (mendicity). (various references)

Bulgarian		нищета (degradation, deprivation, destitution, distress, extremity, indigence, misery, necessity, poverty), беднотия (indigene, poorness), просяци. (various references)

Czech		bída (deprivation, destitution, misery, poverty, squalor, want). (various references)

Finnish		köyhtyä (be reduced to beggary, become poor), joutua keppikerjäläiseksi (be reduced to beggary). (various references)

French		pauvreté, misère, mendicité (begging). (various references)

German		bettevolk, bettelarmut (destitution). (various references)

Greek		επαιτεία (mendicancy, mendicity). (various references)

Hebrew		מסכ� ות (indigence, poverty, squalor, wretchedness), קבצ� ות (mendicancy, poverty), אביו� ות (destitution, pauperism, poverty). (various references)

Hungarian		szegénység (destitution, gutter, indigence, necessity, need, pauperism, pauperization, penury, poorness, poverty), nyomorúság (affliction, distress, extremity, grief, misery, penury, poverty). (various references)

Indonesian		kemiskinan (destitution, poverty). (various references)

Italian		miseria (destitution, indigence, meanness, misery, misfortunes, pittance, poverty, troubles, want, wretchedness), mendicit� (mendicity), estrema povert� . (various references)

Manx		jeirkid (pauperism, paupery). (various references)

Pig Latin		eggarybay

Portuguese		penúria extrema. (various references)

Romanian		sãrãcie extremã (pauperism), mizerie (atrocity, depth, distress, indigence, misery, pauperism, poorness, poverty, squalidity, squalor, troubles, want). (various references)

Russian		нищенство (begging, mendicancy, mendicity). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		siromaštvo (deprivation, destitution, indigence, pauperism, poorness, poverty), prosjačenje (begging, mendicancy), prošnja (begging). (various references)

Spanish		mendicidad (begging, mendicancy, mendicity). (various references)

Swedish		yttersta fattigdom, armod (destitution, neediness, penury, poverty). (various references)

Turkish		sefalet (calamity, dog's life, misery, poverty, sordidness, squalidity, squalidness, squalor, wretchedness), fakirlik (indigence, nudity, pauperism, poorness, poverty, want), dilencilik (mendicancy, mendicity). (various references)

Ukranian		старці, убозтво (squalor), злидні (beggarhood, beggarliness, destitution, distress, indigence, misery, need, neediness, penury, privation), жебраки (beggardom). (various references)

Vietnamese		cảnh nghèo khó xác xơ, cảnh ăn xin, cảnh ăn m� y. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	mendicitas, mendicitate, mendicitatem. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Beggary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bagary, Begara, begarry, beggard, begger, beggry, begry, bigary, Bigerry, buggar, buggary. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-g-r-y"
	-1 letter: bagger, beggar, braggy.
	-2 letters: agger, baggy, barge, barye, eggar, gager, gayer, raggy, yager, yerba.
	-3 letters: abye, aery, ager, bare, bear, berg, brae, brag, bray, byre, eggy, eyra, gaby, gage, garb, gear, grab, gray, grey, gybe, gyre, rage, yare, year, yegg.
	-4 letters: aby, age, arb, are, aye, bag, bar, bay, beg, bey, bra, bye, ear.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-g-g-r-y"
	+1 letter: beggarly.
	+4 letters: ballyragged, bullyragged.
	+5 letters: biogeography, gingerbready.
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