Beggar: Definition and part of speech

Beggar

  1. n. One who assumes in argument what he does not prove.
  2. n. One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner.
  3. n. One who makes it his business to ask alms.
  4. n. One who is dependent upon others for support; — a contemptuous or sarcastic use.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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