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Definition: Poor Person |
Poor PersonNoun1. A person with few or no possessions. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Poor PersonSynonym: have-not (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Poor Person |
| Specialty definitions using "poor person": FORMA. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FORMA :PAUPERIS:. [Latin] In the character of a poor person -- a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case. When Adam long ago in Cupid's awful court (For Cupid ruled ere Adam was invented) Sued for Eve's favor, says an ancient law report, He stood and pleaded unhabilimented. "You sue in forma pauperis, I see," Eve cried; "Actions can't here be that way prosecuted." So all poor Adam's motions coldly were denied: He went away -- as he had come -- nonsuited. G.J. |
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| Language | Translations for "poor person"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | forarmet person, fattig person. (various references) | |
Dutch | noodlijdende, minvermogende, behoeftige, armlastige. (various references) | |
French | miséreux (poverty stricken), indigent (poor, poor fellow), économiquement faible. (various references) | |
German | mittellose Person, Bedürftiger (needier). (various references) | |
Greek | ενδεής, άπορος (destitute, indigent). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ע י (impecunious, indigent, miserable, pauper, penurious, poor, wretched), אביון (beggar, destitute, miserable, needy, pauper, wretched), "לפון. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szegényember, szegény (beggar, hungry, impecunious, indigent, lowly born, miserable, needy, pauper, penniless, poor, skint, to be skint). (various references) | |
Italian | indigente (destitute, indigent, needy, pauper). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 貧者 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひ"じゃ. (various references) | |
Manx | anverchagh (impecunious, needy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oorpay ersonpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | indigente (beggarly, destitute, indigent, necessitous, needy, pauper, poor, poverty-stricken). (various references) | |
Scottish | bochd (miserable, poor, sick). (various references) | |
Spanish | indigente (destitute, indigent, miserable, necessitous, needy, poor). (various references) | |
Turkish | yoksul (hand to mouth, in need, indigent, needy, pauper, penurious, poor, poverty stricken), fukara (the poor), fakir (destitute, distressed, fakir, impecunious, indigent, necessitous, needy, pauper, penniless, penurious, poor, ropy, small). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gedaя (beggar, poor). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-n-o-o-o-p-p-r-r-s" | |
-2 letters: propones, proposer. | |
-3 letters: oospore, operons, opposer, perrons, propers, propone, propose, prosper, snooper. | |
-4 letters: nooser, operon, oppose, perron, person, poorer, pornos, porose, proper, proser, repros, rooser, ropers, snorer, sooner, sorner. | |
-5 letters: noose, opens, peons, pepos, perps, pones, poons, poops, popes, pores, porno, porns, poser, preps, prone, props, prose, proso, repos, repps, repro, roose, roper, ropes. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-n-o-o-o-p-p-r-r-s" | |
+4 letters: proportionates, sporangiophore. | |
+5 letters: counterproposal, disproportioned, opprobriousness, overproportions, proprioceptions, sporangiophores. | |
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