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Definition: Pauperism |
PauperismNoun1. A state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pauperism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
Synonyms: PauperismSynonyms: beggary (n), indigence (n), need (n), penury (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Poverty | Noun: poverty, indigence, penury, pauperism, destitution, want; need, neediness; lack, necessity, privation, distress, difficulties, wolf at the door. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pauperism |
| English words defined with "pauperism": Dispauperize ♦ Poverty grass. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Pauperism" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Romanian (pauperism). |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth. (reference) |
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| "Pauperism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pauperism" is used about 13 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "pauperism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | varfëri (beggary, hardship, indigence, infertility, manginess, misery, necessity, need, penury, poorness, poverty, squalor, want), mjerim (adversity, destitution, grief, hardship, misery, misfortune, penury, squalor, woe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فقر (beggar, destitution, impoverish, indigence, lack, need, neediness, penury, poorness, poverty, ruin, want), عوز (destitution, distress, indigence, lack, misery, necessity, need, paucity, poorness, poverty, privation, want), إملاق (destitution). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сиромаси, сиромашия (penury), бедняци, бедност (destitution, necessity, poorness, poverty, want). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | chudinství. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | paupérisme, indigence (paucity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Verarmung (depletion, impoverishment, pauperization, vegetation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πενιά (penury). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | עו י (indigence, meanness, misery, penury, poorness, poverty, privation, want), אביו ות (beggary, destitution, poverty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tömegnyomor (hell-hole), szegénység (beggary, destitution, gutter, indigence, necessity, need, pauperization, penury, poorness, poverty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | indigenza (indigence, need, penury, poverty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jeirkid (beggary, paupery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | auperismpay pobre (almsman, beggar, beggarly, close-fisted, destitute, elegance, hard set, hungry, indigested, jejune, lazarus, lean, mean, mendicant, miserable, necessitous, needy child, penniless, penurious, poor, shabby). (various references) pauperism, sãrãcie extremã (beggary), mizerie (atrocity, beggary, depth, distress, indigence, misery, poorness, poverty, squalidity, squalor, troubles, want). (various references) пауперизм. (various references) siromaštvo (beggary, deprivation, destitution, indigence, poorness, poverty), beda (calamity, destitution, grief, misery, squalor). (various references) pauperismo (pauperization). (various references) fattigdom (destitution, indigence, necessity, penury, poorness, poverty). (various references) yoksulluk (bareness, calamity, destitution, hardship, misery, need, neediness, penury, poorness, poverty, privation), fakirlik (beggary, indigence, nudity, poorness, poverty, want). (various references) пауперизм. (various references) tình trạng bần cùng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "pauperism": pauperisms. (additional references) | |
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"Pauperism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bauerism, pauperise, Pauperum, puparium. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "pauperism" (pronounced 'Pau"per*ism'): Abolitionism, Absenteeism, Absinthism, Absolutism, Academicism, Academism, Accidentalism, Achromatism, Acosmism, Acrobatism, Acrotism, Actinism, Adiaphorism, AEstheticism, Africanism, Agnosticism, Agonism, Agrarianism, Agriculturism, Albinism, Albinoism, Alcoholism, Alienism, Allodialism, Allomerism, Allomorphism, Allotheism, Alphabetism, Altruism, Amateurism, Americanism, Amorphism, Anabaptism, Anachorism, Anachronism, Anacrotism, Anagrammatism, Analogism, Anamorphism, Anarchism, Anathematism, Anatocism, Anatomism, Anchoretism, Andabatism, Aneurism, Anglicanism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Anglo-Saxonism, Anilinism, Animalism, Animism, Anomalism, Antagonism, Antarchism, Anthorism, Anthropomorphism, Anthropomorphitism, Anthropophuism, Antichronism, Anticivism, Anti-imperialism, Antinomianism, Antiquarianism, Anti-Semitism, Antitheism, Apheliotropism, Aphetism, Aphorism, Aplanatism, Apogeotropism, Apophlegmatism, Apriorism, Arabism, Aramaism, Archaism, Arianism, Aristocratism, Aristotelianism, Arminianism, Arsenicism, Asceticism, Asiaticism, Associationism, Astaticism, Asteism, Asterism, astigmatism, Asystolism, Atavism, Atheism, Athleticism, Athletism, Atomicism, Atomism, Atropism, Atticism, Attorneyism, Authorism, Autochthonism, Autoecism, Autohypnotism, Automatism, Automobilism, Automorphism, Autotheism, Autotropism, Averroism, Baalism, Babyism, Bacchanalianism, Bachelorism, Bahaism, Bantingism, BAPTISM, Barbarism, Bardism, Bastardism, Bathmism, Baunscheidtism, Beggarism, Benthamism, Biblicism, Bibliophilism, Bibliopolism, Bicyclism, Bilingualism, Biliteralism, Bimastism, Bimetallism, Biomagnetism, Biprism, Bitheism, Blackguardism, Bletonism, Blockheadism, Bluestockingism, Bohemianism, Bonapartism, Boodhism, Bossism, Boswellism, Boulangism, Bourbonism, Boycottism, Boyism, Braggardism, Brahmoism, Branchiomerism, Brigandism, Briticism, Bromism, Bromoiodism, Brutalism, Brutism, Buddhism, Buffoonism, Burkism, Cabalism, Caesarism, Cahenslyism, Calvinism, Cannibalism, Carbonarism, Carnalism, Cartesianism, Casualism, Catadicrotism, Catasterism, Catastrophism, Catechism, Catholicism, Cauterism, Cavalierism, Celticism, Cenobitism, Centonism, Centralism, Cephalism, Cerebralism, Ceremonialism, Cesarism, Chaldaism, Characterism, Charism, Charlatanism, Chartism, Chattelism, Chauvinism, Chemism, Chloralism, Chrism, Christianism, Chromatism, Chromism, Churchism, Ciceronianism, Cicisbeism, Cinchonism, Citicism, Civicism, Civism, Classicalism, Classicism, Clericalism, Cliquism, Cocainism, Cockneyism, Collectivism, Colloquialism, Colonialism, Commatism, Commensalism, Commercialism, Communalism, Communism, Compatriotism, Comtism, Conceptualism, Concettism, Confessionalism, Confucianism, Congregationalism, Congruism, Conservatism, Constitutionalism, Consubstantialism, Contrabandism, Conventionalism, Conversationism, Convictism, Corporealism, Cosmopolitanism, Cosmopolitism, Cosmotheism, creationism, Creticism, Cretinism, Cretism, Criticism, Cubism, Cullyism, Curialism, Cynicism, Cyphonism, Daltonism, Dandyism, Darwinianism, Darwinism, Dashism, Deaf-mutism, Decimalism, Deism, Demagogism, Democratism, Demoniacism, Demonianism, Demonism, Denominationalism, Dentalism, Despotism, Determinism, Devilism, Diabolism, Diageotropism, Diaheliotropism, Dialogism, Diamagnetism, Diathermanism, Dichroism, Dichromatism, Dicrotism, Didacticism, Diglottism, Dilettanteism, Dilettantism, Dimorphism, Dioecism, Diorism, Diplomatism, Dissenterism, Ditheism, Docetism, Doctrinarianism, Dogmatism, Donatism, Donnism, Doricism, Dorism, Doughfaceism, Dowagerism, Druidism, Dualism, Dynamism, Dynamitism, Ebionitism, Ecclesiasticism, Eclecticism, Ectorganism, Egoism, Egomism, Egotheism, Egotism, Eleaticism, Electicism, Electro-magnetism, Electro-vitalism, Elementalism, Embolism, Emotionalism, Empiricism, Encyclopedism, Englishism, Entorganism, Epicureanism, Epicurism, Epilogism, Epipolism, Episcopalianism, Episyllogism, Equestrianism, Erastianism, Eremitism, Erethism, Eroticism, Erythrism, Erythrochroism, Esotericism, Essenism, Etacism, Etherealism, Ethnicism, Euhemerism, Eunuchism, Euphemism, Euphonism, Euphuism, Eutychianism, Evangelicalism, Evangelicism, Evangelism, Evolutionism, Exclusionism, Exclusivism, Exorcism, Exoticism, Experientialism, Externalism, Falsism, Familism, Fanaticism, Fanatism, Fantasticism, Fatalism, Favoritism, Federalism, Fenianism, feudalism, Filibusterism, Fissiparism, Flunlyism, Fogyism, Foreignism, formalism, Fossilism, Fourierism, Frenchism, Frivolism, futurism, Galenism, Gallicanism, Gallicism, Galvanotropism, Gamomorphism, Gargarism, Genevanism, Gentilism, Geomalism, Geophagism, Geotropism, Germanism, Geusdism, Gipsyism, Gladiatorism, Gnosticism, Gongorism, Gonochorism, Gormandism, Gothicism, Grammarianism, Grammaticism, Grangerism, Grecism, Grundyism, Gutturalism, Gynandromorphism, Gypsyism, heathenism, Hebraism. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-m-p-p-r-s-u" | |
-2 letters: apprise, impresa, mappers, pampers, paupers, preamps, priapus, pumpers, repumps, sappier, spumier, umpires, upraise, uremias. | |
-3 letters: aimers, amuser, armies, aspire, impure, mapper, pamper, papers, pareus, paries, pauper, pauser, pipers, praise, preamp, primas, primes, primps, primus, pumper, purism, ramies, remaps, repump, sapper, simper, sipper, spirea, spirem, supper, umpire, uppers, uprise, uremia. | |
-4 letters: aimer, amies, amirs, amuse, apers, apres, arise, arums, asper, aurei, aures, auris, emirs, mairs, mares, marse, maser, mires, miser, muras, mures, muser, pairs, paise, paper, pares, pareu, paris, parse, pause, pears, peris, perms, perps, piers, pimas, pimps, piper, pipes, prams, prase, praus, preps, presa, pries, prima, prime, primp, prims, prise, prism, pumas, pumps, pupae, pupas, puris, purse, raise, ramie, ramps, ramus, rapes, reams, reaps, remap, repps, rimes, ripes, rumps, sepia, serai, serum, sieur, simar, sirup, smear, spare, spear, speir, sperm, spier, spire, sprue, spume, super, supra, upper, uraei, urase, ureas, ursae. | |
-5 letters: aims, airs, amie, amir, amis, amps, amus, aper, apes, apse, ares, arms, arse, arum, ears, emir, emus, eras, imps, ires, maes, mair, maps, mare, mars, mesa, mire, mirs, mise, mura, mure, muse, pair, pams, paps, pare, pars, pase, pear, peas, peps, peri, perm, perp, pias, pier, pies, pima, pimp, pipe, pips, pram, prau, prep, prim, puma, pump, pupa, pups, pure, puri, purs, rami, ramp, rams, rape, raps, rase, rasp, ream, reap, reis, rems, repp, reps, rias, rime, rims, ripe, rips, rise, rues, rump, rums, ruse, same, samp, sari, seam, sear, semi, sera, sima, simp, sipe, sire, spae, spam, spar, spue, spur, suer, sump, supe, sura, sure, umps, upas, urea, ursa, user. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-m-p-p-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: pauperisms. | |
+2 letters: semipopular. | |
+3 letters: appressorium. | |
+4 letters: mousetrapping, superdiplomat. | |
+5 letters: superdiplomats, superimposable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 75 70 65 72 69 73 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- ..- .--. . .-. .. ... -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110101 01110000 01100101 01110010 01101001 01110011 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a u p e r i s m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0075 0070 0065 0072 0069 0073 006D |
| 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)506787827184758579 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Historic 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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