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mendicant
[men-di-kuhnt] 
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mendicant
[men-di-kuhnt]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beggar |
| Synonyms: | monk, panhandler, pauper, vagabond |
| Main Entry: | beggar |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person in financial trouble |
| Synonyms: | alms person, bankrupt, dependent, down-and-out, guttersnipe, indigent, mendicant, pauper, poor person, poverty-stricken person, street person, suppliant, vagrant, ward of state |
| Main Entry: | pauper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is poor |
| Synonyms: | almsperson, bankrupt, beggar, bum, dependent, destitute, down-and-out, have-not, homeless person, in the gutter, indigent, insolvent, lazarus, mendicant, poor person, supplicant |
| Antonyms: | rich, wealthy |
| Main Entry: | vagabond |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unsettled; vagrant |
| Synonyms: | aimless, destitute, down-and-out, drifting, errant, fancy-free, fly-by-night, footloose, idle, itinerant, itinerate, journeying, mendicant, migratory, moving, nomadic, perambulant, perambulatory, peripatetic, prodigal, rambling, roaming, rootless, roving, sauntering, shifting, shiftless, straggling, stray, strolling, transient, travelling, unsettled, wandering, wayfaring, wayward |
| Notes: | a vagabond refers to a person who leads a carefree, roaming existence; a vagrant ekes out a living by begging and is often considered a nuisance |
| Antonyms: | inhabiting, settled |
| Main Entry: | panhandler |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beggar |
| Synonyms: | bum, mendicant, street person, tramp, vagrant |
| Main Entry: | almsman |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beggar |
| Synonyms: | almswoman, cadger, mendicant, panhandler |
| Main Entry: | almswoman |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beggar |
| Synonyms: | almsman, cadger, mendicant, panhandler |
| Main Entry: | cadger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beggar |
| Synonyms: | bum, freeloader, mendicant, mooch, moocher, scrounger, sponge, sponger |
| Main Entry: | have-not |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pauper |
| Synonyms: | almsperson, bankrupt, beggar, bum, dependent, destitute, down-and-out, down-and-outer, homeless person, in the gutter, indigent, insolvent, lazarus, mendicant, poor person, supplicant |
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