Poverty /(pŏv"ẽr*ty̆)/
Pov·er·ty
Poverty
n.
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The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty.
- Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.
Phrases & Compounds
- Poverty grass
- a name given to several slender grasses (as Aristida dichotoma, and Danthonia spicata) which often spring up on old and worn-out fields.