poverty

Meaning

Noun

  • The quality or state of being poor; lack of money
  • Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness

Origin

  • From Middle English poverte, from Old French poverté (Modern French pauvreté), from Latin paupertās, from pauper + -tas. Cognates include pauper, poor.

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