beggary

beg·gar·y  (bg-r)

n.

1. Extreme poverty; penury.

2. The state or condition of being a beggar.

3. Beggars considered as a group.

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beggary [ˈbɛgərɪ]

n

1. extreme poverty or need

2. the condition of being a beggar

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Beggary beggars collectively, 1615. Also beggardom, 1884; beggarhood, 1843.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	beggary - a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) begging, mendicancy solicitation - an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status; "a solicitation to the king for relief"
	2.	beggary - the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced to mendicancy" mendicancy, mendicity indigence, pauperism, pauperization, penury, need - a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"

Translations

beggary [ˈbegərɪ] N (frm) → mendicidad f
to reduce to beggary → reducir a la miseria

beggary

n → Bettelarmut f; (= beggars) → Bettler pl, → Bettelvolk nt; to have been reduced to beggary → bettelarm sein