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Poor Person

Definition: Poor Person

Poor Person

Noun

1. A person with few or no possessions.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonym: Poor Person

Synonym: have-not (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Poor Person

Specialty definitions using "poor person": FORMA. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Poor Person

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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.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Poor Person

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.

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Anagrams: Poor Person

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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