Pauper

Definition: Pauper

Pauper

Noun

1. A person who is very poor.

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

Date "pauper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Pauper \Pau"per\, noun. [Latin expression See Poor.]. (references)

Dream Interpretation

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Synonym: Pauper

Petitioner

Pauper, homeless person, hobo, bum, tramp, bindle stiff, bo, knight of the road (poverty); hippie, flower child; hard core unemployed; welfare client, welfare case.

Poverty

Poor man, pauper, mendicant, mumper, beggar, starveling; pauvre diable; fakir, schnorrer; homeless person.

Crosswords: Pauper

Dutch (pauper, poor man), Latin (a poor man, beggar, meager, of small means, pauper, person without means, poor, poverty-stricken, with few means).

I will die a pauper. (The 13th Warrior; writing credit: William Wisher Jr.)

Gonna be a penthouse pauper (Love In An Elevator; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Prince or pauper, beggar man or thing (DANDELION; performing artist: The Rolling Stones)

The Prince and the Pauper (1962)

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Books

• God's pauper : St. Francis of Assisi : a novel (reference)

• The Poet and the Pauper (Seasons of the Heart, 1) (reference)

• The Prince and the Pauper (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Prince & The Pauper (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• A Pauper in Paradise (reference)

• Loving Pauper (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth. (reference)

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The sun has the appearance of a pauper.

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Expression using "pauper": pauper grave. Additional references.

Afrikaans

arme (poor, poor man), aalwyntapper (aloe juice collector, poor, poor devil, poor man). (various references)

Albanian

vobektë, varfanjak (almsman, destitute, needy person, poor man, waif). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فقير (destitute, fakir, indigent, low-income, moneyless, necessitous, needy, ownerless, penurious, poor, poor mouth, poverty stricken), ‏محتاج (in need, indigent, necessitous, needy, poor), ‏معوز (destitute, down and out, indigent, infelicitous, insolvent, lack, necessitous, needy, poor, poverty stricken, starveling), ‏عالة (dependent, drone), ‏الفقير (poor). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сиромах, бедняк (cracker), просяк (beggar, lazarus, mendicant, panhandler). (various references)

Czech

nemajetný èlovìk, chuïas. (various references)

Dutch

pauper (poor man), sukkelaar (poor devil, poor man), stumper (poor devil, poor man), armoedzaaier (poor devil, poor man), arme (poor man). (various references)

Esperanto

senhavulo (poor man), mizerulo (poor devil, poor man), malriĉulo (poor man). (various references)

Farsi 

معسریاعاجزازپرداخت(حق.), گدا (Beggar), بی نوا. (various references)

French

pauvre, indigent, cancre. (various references)

German

unterstützungsempfänger (person on relief), Sozialhilfeempfänger (paupers), Armer (unfortunate), Arme (arms, poor, poor man (woman), poor woman, unfortunate). (various references)

Greek 

πένησ, άποροσ (destitute, impecunious, indigent, needy, resourceless). (various references)

Hebrew 

קבצן (beggar, mendicant, sponge, tramp), ע� י (impecunious, indigent, miserable, penurious, poor, poor person, wretched), אביון (beggar, destitute, miserable, needy, poor person, wretched). (various references)

Hungarian

szegény (beggar, hungry, impecunious, indigent, lowly born, miserable, needy, penniless, poor, poor person, skint, to be skint), nyomorgó (destitute, distressed, wanting), koldus (beggar, mendicant, mumper, panhandler), ínséges (distressed). (various references)

Indonesian

fakir miskin. (various references)

Italian

indigente (destitute, indigent, needy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� �'貧 (dire poverty, penniless). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すか�"ぴ�" (dire poverty, penniless). (various references)

Manx

jeirkagh (almsman, beggar, benefit, benefit as match, benevolent, cadger, impecunious), boght (deprived, grotty, miserable, poor, shabby, shoddy, skinny), arkyssagh (calamitous, distressed, misfortunate, needy person). (various references)

Pig Latin

auperpay.(various references)

Polish

biedak (poor man). (various references)

Portuguese

pobre (almsman, beggar, beggarly, close-fisted, destitute, eleemosynary, hard set, hungry, indigent, jejune, lazarus, mean, mendicant, miserable, necessitous, needy, penniless, penurious, poor, shabby), pedinte (beggar, cadger, lazarus, mendicant, mumper, panhandler, peddlar, tramp), necessitado (lacking, necessitous, needy, poor, poverty-stricken), indigente (beggarly, destitute, indigent, necessitous, needy, poor, poverty-stricken). (various references)

Romanian

pârlit (adust, wretched), sãrman (indigent, poor, poor devil, wretched), sãrac (barren, beggarly, destitute, empty, hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, lean, low-lived, meager, meagre, mean, needful, needy, peeled, penniless, penurious, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, poor man, poverty stricken, scanty, small, sterile, stingy, void), sãrãntoc, cerşetor (almsman, beggar, cadger, Lazar, mendicant, tramp), calic (beggar, cadger, cripple, glutton, greedy, ragamuffin, ragged, skinflint, tatterdemalion). (various references)

Russian 

нищий (almsman, beggar, dog poor, lazarus, mendicant, mumper, panhandler), бедняк (poor body). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

siromah (poor), siromašan (destitute, have not, impecunious, indigent, necessitous, needy, poor, underprivileged). (various references)

Spanish

pobre (abject, beggar, destitute, dismal, hungry, impecunious, indigent, jimp, meager, meagre, mingy, miserable, miserly, needy, pathetic, pathetical, penurious, poor, scrappy, wretched). (various references)

Sranan

potisma (poor man), mofinasma (poor man). (various references)

Swedish

fattighjon. (various references)

Turkish

yoksul (hand to mouth, in need, indigent, needy, penurious, poor, poor person, poverty stricken), fakir (destitute, distressed, fakir, impecunious, indigent, necessitous, needy, penniless, penurious, poor, poor person, ropy, small). (various references)

Ukrainian

бідняк (have not), бідний (bare, barren, destitute, fortuneless, lean, necessitous, needful, needy, one horse, penurious, poor, scrannel, shabby, tenuous, underprivileged). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người nghèo túng, người ăn xin người nghèo được cứu tế. (various references)

Welsh

tlotyn. (various references)

pauper. (various references)

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Derivations

Words beginning with "pauper": paupered, paupering, pauperism, pauperisms, pauperize, pauperized, pauperizes, pauperizing, paupers. (additional references)

Words containing "pauper": depauperate. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pauper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ausperg, dauper, panuer, parper, pauaer, paufer, Pauker, paume, paupef, Pauperum, paupiere, Paupr, Peukert, Peuser, Pfauter, poper, poupe, Poupee, pouper, pourper, Pupker, pupper, Pupwrf. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: paper, pareu, pupae, upper.

-2 letters: aper, pare, pear, perp, prau, prep, pupa, pure, rape, reap, repp, urea.

-3 letters: ape, are, ear, eau, era, pap, par, pea, pep, per, pup, pur, rap, rep, rue.

-4 letters: ae, ar, er, pa, pe, re, up.

+1 letter: paupers.

+2 letters: gunpaper, paupered, prepupal.

+3 letters: applauder, curlpaper, gunpapers, papyruses, paupering, pauperism, pauperize, peripatus, perpetual, preputial, priapuses, propagule, puerperal, puerperia, suppurate, unhappier, unwrapped, uppercase, upperpart.

+4 letters: applauders, curlpapers, paperbound, pauperisms, pauperized, pauperizes, perceptual, perpetuate, popularise, popularize, pourparler, prenuptial, prepuberal, propagules, propylaeum, rapporteur, repopulate, superplane, supersharp, supplanter, suppurated, suppurates, tropopause, unapparent, unapproved, unprepared, unstrapped, uppercased, uppercases, upperparts.