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–noun

1.	a person without any means of support, esp. a destitute person who depends on aid from public welfare funds or charity.

2.	a very poor person.

[Origin: 1485–95; < L: poor

]

—Related forms

pau·per·age, pau·per·dom, noun

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n.

One who is extremely poor.
One living on or eligible for public charity.

[From Latin, poor; see pau-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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pauper

1516, "person destitute of property or means of livelihood," from L. pauper "poor," from pre-L. *pavo-pars "getting little," from pau-, root of paucus "little" + parere "get, produce" (see pare). Originally in Eng. a legal word, from L. phrase in forma pauperis (1495) "in the character of a poor person."

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pauper
noun
a person who is very poor

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
pauper [ˈpoːpə] noun

a very poor person
Example: Her husband died a pauper.

Arabic:	فَقير جدا
Chinese (Simplified):	贫民，叫花子，乞丐
Chinese (Traditional):	貧民，叫花子，乞丐
Czech:	nuzák, žebrák, -čka
Danish:	subsistensløs
Dutch:	pauper
Estonian:	vaene
Finnish:	köyhä
French:	indigent, *-ente
German:	der, *die Arme
Greek:	άνθρωπος πάμφτωχος
Hungarian:	szegény
Icelandic:	fátæklingur; ölmusumaður
Indonesian:	orang miskin
Italian:	indigente

Japanese:	貧困者
Korean:	극빈자
Latvian:	nabags; ubags
Lithuanian:	beturtis, elgeta
Norwegian:	fattiglem
Polish:	żebrak, nędzarz
Portuguese (Brazil):	indigente
Portuguese (Portugal):	mendigo
Romanian:	sărac
Russian:	бедняк
Slovak:	žobrák, bedár
Slovenian:	revež
Spanish:	indigente
Swedish:	fattighjon, utfattig stackare
Turkish:	çok yoksul kimse

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Pauper

Pau"per\, n. [L. See Poor.] A poor person; especially, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor.

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