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pov·er·ty    Audio Help   [pov-er-tee] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor; indigence.
2.deficiency of necessary or desirable ingredients, qualities, etc.: poverty of the soil.
3.scantiness; insufficiency: Their efforts to stamp out disease were hampered by a poverty of medical supplies.

[Origin: 1125–75; ME poverte < OF < L paupertāt- (s. of paupertās) small means, moderate circumstances. See pauper, -ty2]

1. penury. Poverty, destitution, need, want imply a state of privation and lack of necessities. Poverty denotes serious lack of the means for proper existence: living in a state of extreme poverty. Destitution, a somewhat more literary word, implies a state of having absolutely none of the necessities of life: widespread destitution in countries at war. Need emphasizes the fact that help or relief is necessary: Most of the people were in great need. Want emphasizes privations, esp. lack of food and clothing: Families were suffering from want. 3. meagerness.
1. riches, wealth, plenty.
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pov·er·ty    Audio Help   (pŏv'ər-tē)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. The state of being poor; lack of the means of providing material needs or comforts.
  2. Deficiency in amount; scantiness: "the poverty of feeling that reduced her soul" (Scott Turow).
  3. Unproductiveness; infertility: the poverty of the soil.
  4. Renunciation made by a member of a religious order of the right to own property.


[Middle English poverte, from Old French, from Latin paupertās, from pauper, poor; see pau-1 in Indo-European roots.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
poverty 
c.1175, from O.Fr. poverte, from L. paupertatem (nom. paupertas) "poverty," from pauper (see poor).
"Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties." [Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables," 1862]

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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poverty

noun
the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions [ant: wealth

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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poverty [ˈpovəti] noun
the condition of being poor
Example: They lived in extreme poverty; the poverty of the soil
Arabic: فَقْر
Chinese (Simplified): 贫穷
Chinese (Traditional): 貧窮
Czech: chudoba
Danish: fattigdom
Dutch: armoede
Estonian: vaesus
Finnish: köyhyys
French: pauvreté
German: die Armut
Greek: φτώχεια
Hungarian: szegénység
Icelandic: fátækt
Indonesian: kemiskinan
Italian: povertà
Japanese: 貧困
Korean: 가난, 메마름
Latvian: nabadzība; (zemes) neauglība
Lithuanian: skurdas, skurdumas
Norwegian: fattigdom; (jordas) ufruktbarhet
Polish: ubóstwo
Portuguese (Brazil): pobreza
Portuguese (Portugal): pobreza
Romanian: sărăcie
Russian: бедность
Slovak: chudoba
Slovenian: revščina
Spanish: pobreza
Swedish: fattigdom
Turkish: yoksulluk
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Poverty

In"di*gence\, n. [L. indigentia: cf. F. indigence. See Indigent.] The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence. --Cowper.

Syn: Poverty; penury; destitution; want; need; privation; lack. See Poverty.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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