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Word entry · 4 letters

poor

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"Having little money"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /pʊɚ/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted ooprStarts with PEnds with R1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Having little money; also low in quality.

Word origin

Inherited from Middle English povre, povere, from Old French (and Anglo-Norman) povre, poure, from Latin pauper, from Old Latin *pavo-pars (literally “getting little”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”). Doublet of pauper.

Used in a sentence

  • We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes.
  • England is growne to ſuch a paſſe of late, That rich men triumph to ſee the poore beg at their gate.
  • When Owenism and Chartism had burned themselves out, England had become poorer by that substance out of which the Anglo-Saxon ideal of a free society could have been built up for centuries to come.

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