Definitions
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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01“Having little money”4 letters
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