🔄 Synonyms of "Beggar"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| mendicantnoun | A religious friar, forbidden to own personal property, who begs for a living. |
| pauperizeverb | (transitive) To make someone a pauper; to impoverish. |
| homelessnoun | (nonstandard, possibly offensive) A person who is homeless. |
| trampnoun | (sometimes derogatory) A homeless person; a vagabond. |
| hobonoun | (Canada, US) Any migratory laborer, whether homeless or not. |
| straynoun | Any domestic animal that lacks an enclosure, proper place, or company, but that instead wanders at large or is lost; an estray. |
| drifternoun | (sometimes derogatory) A person who moves from place to place or job to job. |
| bumnoun | (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A homeless person, usually a man. |
| paupernoun | One who is extremely poor. |
| panhandlernoun | One who panhandles; an urban beggar who typically stands on a street with an outstretched container in hand, begging for loose change or money. |
| vagabondnoun | One who usually wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood. |
| vagrantnoun | (specifically) A person without settled employment or habitation who usually supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means; a tramp, a vagabond. |
| cadgernoun | (sometimes Geordie) A beggar. |
| supplicantnoun | one who comes to humbly ask or petition |
| almsmannoun | (obsolete) One who depends on the receipt of alms, a beggar. |
| moochnoun | To beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain. |
| scroungernoun | One who scrounges. |
| spongernoun | A parasitic hanger-on. |
| ragamuffinnoun | A dirty, shabbily-clothed child; an urchin. |
| indigentnoun | Poor; destitute; in need. |
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