Definizione monolingua

beggar

beggar (third-person singular simple present beggars, present participle beggaring, simple past and past participle beggared) (transitive)

1. To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.
2. To exhaust the resources of; to outdo.

beggar (plural beggars)

1. A person who begs.
   • 1983, Stanley Rosen, Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image, St. Augustine’s Press, p. 62:

     Odysseus has returned to his home disguised as a beggar.

2. A person suffering from extreme poverty.
   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:

     Im to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!

Definizione dizionario beggar

	accattone
	A person who begs.

	mendicante
	A person who begs.

accattapane

pezzente

individuo

paltoniere

povero

Altri significati:

person suffering poverty

cask wrapped in straw matting

To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.

to make a beggar of someone

To exhaust the resources of; to outdo.

To make poor.

A person suffering from extreme poverty.

person who begs