poverty
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
poverty/ˈpɒvəti/
▶noun
- 1 the state of being extremely poor.
■ the renunciation of the right to individual ownership of property as part of a religious vow.
- 2 the state of being insufficient in amount.
– origin ME: from OFr. poverte, from L. paupertas, from pauper ‘poor’.
'poverty' also found in these Oxford entries:
abject
- beggar
- beggarly
- beggary
- bootstrap
- dervish
- Dickensian
- distressed area
- grind
- hunger march
- leucopenia
- liberation theology
- misère
- monk
- narrow
- neutropenia
- nun
- palmer
- pancytopenia
- penury
- poverty line
- poverty-stricken
- poverty trap
- reduce
- ruin
- straiten
- thrombocytopenia
- want
