Home                    Word of the Week Links for Word Lovers Crossword Solver AllWords Forums    Help                       Bookstore             Advertise              Copyrights            Privacy                  AllWords Search Box Contact Us

English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'poverty' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions poverty noun  The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need. 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. (webster) Translations:  Dutch: armoede French: pauvreté German: Armut Italian: povertí  (trans-mid) Spanish: pobreza (trans-bottom) (checktrans) (trans-top, Translations to be checked) Etymology: From poverte, from Old French, from Latin paupertas, paupertÄs, from pauper ("poor") + -tas (noun of state suffix).Cognates include pauper, poor, French pauvreté'''.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Dictionary content provided from Wiktionary.org under the GNU Free Documentation License Allwords Copyright 1998-2008 Allsites LLC. All rights reserved.