pauper
noun/ˈpɔː.pə/UK/ˈpɔ.pɚ/US/ˈpɑ.pɚ/CA/ˈpoː.pə/
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin pauper (“poor”). Originally a legal term. Doublet of poor.
Definitions
One who is extremely poor.
- He has hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bank, and he lives like a pauper!
One living on or eligible for public charity.
To make a pauper of
To make a pauper of; to drive into poverty.
- “There’s no sense in you paupering yourself because you’re too stubborn to take my money.” ¶ “I’m not paupering myself.”
The neighborhood
- synonymbankrupt
- synonymbeggar
- synonymindigent
- synonyminsolvent
- synonymhave not
- synonymlack-all
- synonymLazarus
- synonympauper
- synonympenny-father
- synonympoor
- antonymmoneybags
- antonymplutocrat
- antonymtycoon
- neighbordepauperate
- neighborpauci-
- neighborvagabond
- neighborimpoverished
- neighborpoverty
- neighborperson
- neighborchav
- neighbordole bludger
- neighborwelfare bum
- neighborwelfare parasite
- neighborwelfare queen
Derived
dispauper, pauperdom, pauperess, pauperism, pauperize, pauper's funeral, pauper's grave
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA