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Meaning of "beggarhood" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BEGGARHOOD

beggarhood  [ˈbɛɡəhʊd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BEGGARHOOD

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Beggarhood is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BEGGARHOOD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

beggarhood

Begging

Begging or panhandling is the practice of imploring others to grant a favor, often a gift of money, with little or no expectation of reciprocation. Beggars may be found in public places such as transport routes, urban parks, and near busy markets. Besides money, they may also ask for food, drink, cigarettes or other small items. Beggar, 1622, by Jacques Callot According to a study in the journal of the Canadian Medical Association, " stated that they would prefer a minimum-wage job, typically citing a desire for a 'steady income' or 'getting off the street.' However, many felt they could not handle conventional jobs because of mental illness, physical disability or lack of skills."...

Definition of beggarhood in the English dictionary

The definition of beggarhood in the dictionary is state of beggary.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BEGGARHOOD


adulthood
ˈædʌltˌhʊd
bachelorhood
ˈbætʃələhʊd
boyhood
ˈbɔɪhʊd
brotherhood
ˈbrʌðəˌhʊd
childhood
ˈtʃaɪldhʊd
daughterhood
ˈdɔːtəhʊd
fatherhood
ˈfɑːðəˌhʊd
hood
hʊd
likelihood
ˈlaɪklɪˌhʊd
livelihood
ˈlaɪvlɪˌhʊd
manhood
ˈmænhʊd
masterhood
ˈmɑːstəhʊd
motherhood
ˈmʌðəˌhʊd
neighborhood
ˈneɪbəˌhʊd
neighbourhood
ˈneɪbəˌhʊd
parenthood
ˈpɛərənthʊd
priesthood
ˈpriːstˌhʊd
sisterhood
ˈsɪstəˌhʊd
spinsterhood
ˈspɪnstəhʊd
squirehood
ˈskwaɪəhʊd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BEGGARHOOD

begaze
begem
beget
begetter
begetting
beggar
beggar-my-neighbour
beggar-ticks
beggar´s-lice
beggar´s-ticks
beggardom
beggarliness
beggarly
beggarweed
beggary
begged
begging
begging bowl
begging letter
beggingly

WORDS THAT END LIKE BEGGARHOOD

falsehood
flapperhood
godhood
knighthood
lens hood
maximum likelihood
nationhood
personhood
prophethood
sainthood
selfhood
servanthood
singlehood
surrogate motherhood
toddlerhood
traitorhood
victimhood
waiterhood
widowerhood
womanhood

Synonyms and antonyms of beggarhood in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «beggarhood» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BEGGARHOOD

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The translations of beggarhood from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «beggarhood» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

beggarhood
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mendicidad
570 millions of speakers

English

beggarhood
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

beggarhood
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

beggarhood
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

beggarhood
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

beggarhood
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

beggarhood
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

beggarhood
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pengemis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

beggarhood
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

beggarhood
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

beggarhood
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Beggarhood
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

beggarhood
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

beggarhood
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भिकारी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

beggarhood
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

beggarhood
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

beggarhood
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

beggarhood
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

beggarhood
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

beggarhood
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

beggarhood
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

beggarhood
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

beggarhood
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of beggarhood

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BEGGARHOOD»

The term «beggarhood» is used very little and occupies the 159.034 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BEGGARHOOD» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «beggarhood» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «beggarhood» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about beggarhood

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BEGGARHOOD»

Discover the use of beggarhood in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to beggarhood and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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True Crime Warped Mind Book 1
The. Institutionalization. of. Beggarhood. By. Phillip. Jablonski. Let me share with your readers the struggle that an indigent inmate suffers. First of all, the indigent inmate is expected to shower with two bars of soap a month. When requesting ...
Shane Bugbee
2
The Transfiguring Places: Poems
Beggarhood Loping along back roads, Or sitting in his verandah In a deckchair, Or waiting outside phone booths, Invisible to none But himself, he's The man with 6/6 vision. It is November And he sees March, The jacaranda putting forth An ...
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, 1998
3
Bulletin of the Asia Institute
The idea of "The Kingship of Beggarhood" is conveyed in a fifth Persian poem [do -beyti] carved in champleve on the neck of the dragon-shaped flnials fore and aft [ Mojtass metre): L^»crJljLfc^J>j(t_fcjLJC. ; fa [ ., , We are qalandars., at the time ...
4
The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time
But in many cases he agreed with the right hon. gentleman that deception was practised, and tfrat even in cases where the men had been in reality mutilated, their sturdy beggarhood changed pity into disgust, and called loudly on the police to ...
Great Britain. Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard, 1813
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The Metropolitan Magazine
The great general of armies in his stage of beggarhood and blindness should stand alone. Mr. Scott has preserved this concentration of interest to the end. The catastrophe is as much a proof of his judgment as of his power. The happiness of  ...
6
The Gentleman's Magazine
Of a Bishop, -—-- Episcopacy, -——-—- Bishophood. Of a Colonel, --—- Colonelcy, -—.—- Culonelhood. Of an Absentee, --— Absenteeism, ——- Absenteehood. Of a Beggar, Beggary, - Beggarhood. Good En lish words might be easily formed ...
7
Epic: Form, Content, and History
... like Rama and the Pandava brothers, or by experiencing beggarhood or even sex-change in disguise, like Odysseus among the suitors or Arjuna disguised as a woman in the court of Virata. Given the paradoxes of the hero's nature, what is ...
Frederick Turner, 2012
8
Harper's New Monthly Magazine
... a warm heart as Victor Hugo's, should subscribe liberally to the plaintive beggarhood of Lamartine, and worry himself into a Quixotic exaltation of championship when the proud Teutonic master of Hapsburg tramples so ruthlessly as he does ...
Henry Mills Alden, 1859
9
Natural Symbols
A man does not work his way down to beggarhood and then pose as an Indian king on the stage (jung, 1940: 63). But there was no switch in logic and no betrayal of the principles of Protestantism in the theosophist turning to exotic cultures, ...
Mary Douglas, 2013
10
The Netherlands
... a ground of accusation against them. On April 8 the confederates left Brussels, many of them adopting a costume of coarse grey material, and carrying the emblems of their beggarhood, the wallet and the bowl, at their girdles or in their hats.
Mary Macgregor, 2007

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BEGGARHOOD»

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'Microscripts' by Robert Walser
... plight of a man idling away his days in a state of “spiritual beggarhood.” Walser punctuates the piece with the opaque announcement that “[i]n ... «Boston Globe, Dec 12»

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