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When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men.
Ahmed Ben Bella

Meaning of "meagre" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MEAGRE

From Old French maigre,from Latin macer lean, poor.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MEAGRE

meagre  [ˈmiːɡə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MEAGRE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Meagre is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES MEAGRE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of meagre in the English dictionary

The first definition of meagre in the dictionary is deficient in amount, quality, or extent. Other definition of meagre is thin or emaciated. Meagre is also lacking in richness or strength.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MEAGRE


amiga
æˈmiːɡə
Antigua
ænˈtiːɡə
beleaguer
bɪˈliːɡə
biga
ˈbiːɡə
bigha
ˈbiːɡə
bodega
bəʊˈdiːɡə
eager
ˈiːɡə
geropiga
ˌdʒɛrəʊˈpiːɡə
intriguer
ɪnˈtriːɡə
leaguer
ˈliːɡə
overeager
ˌəʊvərˈiːɡə
quadriga
kwɒˈdriːɡə
reneguer
rɪˈniːɡə
Riga
ˈriːɡə
Seeger
ˈsiːɡə
Talabriga
ˌtæləˈbriːɡə
uneager
ʌnˈiːɡə
Vega
ˈviːɡə
viga
ˈviːɡə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MEAGRE

meadow pipit
meadow rue
meadow saffron
meadowland
meadowlark
meadowsweet
meadowy
Meads
meagerly
meagerness
meagrely
meagreness
meal
meal moth
meal ticket
meal-less
mealer
mealie
mealie meal
mealie pap

WORDS THAT END LIKE MEAGRE

adventure
agriculture
Aire
anywhere
architecture
are
arriere
as it were
as you were
aware
be sure
canaigre
eagre
maigre
maugre
more
ogre
Porto Alegre
Tigre
to be sure

Synonyms and antonyms of meagre in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «MEAGRE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «meagre» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of meagre

Translation of «meagre» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MEAGRE

Find out the translation of meagre to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of meagre from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «meagre» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

数量很少的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

escaso
570 millions of speakers

English

meagre
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अल्प
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الهزيلة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

скудные
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

escasso
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অনুর্বর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

maigre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sedikit
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kläglich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ほんの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

빈약한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Banget
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thanh đạm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வெறும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अल्प
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yetersiz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

misero
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mizerne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мізерні
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

slabă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πενιχρό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

karige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

magra
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

magre
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of meagre

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MEAGRE»

The term «meagre» is regularly used and occupies the 63.601 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MEAGRE» OVER TIME

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

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QUOTES WITH «MEAGRE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word meagre.
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Ahmed Ben Bella
When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MEAGRE»

Discover the use of meagre in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to meagre and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Meagre Tarmac: Stories
An Indo-American Canterbury Tales, by a North American master of short fiction.
Clark Blaise, 2011
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The Meagre Harvest: The Australian Women's Movement, 1950s-1990s
Gisela Kaplan traces the story of post-war Australian feminism, highlighting the ambivalence about/to lesbian, migrant and Aboriginal women.
Gisela T. Kaplan, 1996
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Survival on Meagre Resources: Hadendowa Pastoralism in the ...
This is the first comprehensive study of Hadendowa Beja pastoralism in Sinkat Province, Eastern Suda. The book discusses the effects of the drought in the 1980s and shows the strategies for survival and for pastoral rehabilitation.
Leif O. Manger, 1996
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Present market situation and prospects of meagre ...
This is what will most likely happen if the coming increased production converges towards favourable markets like Spain, Italy and Portugal.
Marie-Christine Monfort, General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), Food and Agriculture Organization, 2010
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General Topology: Chapters 5-10
of the form A X B is almost open if and only if either both A and B are almost open or one of them is meagre [use Q off)]. 7) A topological space X is said to be non- meagre if it is not meagre relative to itself. a) X is non-meagre if and only if every  ...
N. Bourbaki, 1998
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Combinatorial Set Theory: With a Gentle Introduction to Forcing
Now, a subset of '"w is called meagre if it is contained in the union of countably many nowhere dense sets. For example C0 is meagre. Since the closure of a nowhere dense set is nowhere dense, we find that every meagre set is contained in ...
Lorenz J. Halbeisen, 2011
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics
LEMMA 3.1. Suppose that Sy, T^ for i,j 6 {0, 1} are pairwise disjoint Borel subsets ofXUY for which Sy C Xy, Ty C Yy andfySy = Ty. Then X - \JI :J<2 Sy and Y — |J/. - <2 Ty cannot both be meagre. Proof. Suppose otherwise for a contradiction.
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Seafood Research from Fish to Dish: Quality, Safety and ...
Sensory analysis The sensory panel was trained according to Carbonell and others (2002). Dorsal fillets were cut from each meagre. The parts close to the head and the tail, respectively, were removed to obtain portions of approximately 6x3 ...
Joop B. Luten, 2006
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Information and Randomness: An Algorithmic Perspective
A set which is not meagre is called a second Baire category set. A dense set is a set whose closure is equal to the whole space. Passing to complements we get co-rare, co-meagre. co-dense sets. Intuitively, the properties of being rare.
Cristian Calude, 2002
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Sets and Extensions in the Twentieth Century
He then shows that if M is a standard model of ZFC such that Statement 13 holds for F = NN∩M then the union of all meagre Borel sets in M is meagre. Bartoszynski's Theorem follows from this by realizing that if κ < add(N) and X is a family ...
‎2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MEAGRE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term meagre is used in the context of the following news items.
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Nigerian Refugees Move From Volatile Border in Cameroon
Locals have been sharing their meagre resources with them, including water and food. UNHCR teams are unable to access the border area for ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
2
Neo Bankside: how Richard Rogers's new 'non-dom accom' cut out …
The development is garnished with the usual meagre concession to public amenities – a small area closed to the public at 8pm. Photograph: ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
Anorexic Shannon Finan was denied treatment because her BMI …
By the time she was 18, she was surviving on meagre rations of fruit and veg each day - and claims she begged her GP for help after losing two ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
4
Sonia Gandhi signals Congress's intent: 'First resignations, then …
Since Congress has a meagre 44 MPs in the Lok Sabha, Sonia has instructed all members to be present to ensure that the party's feeble voice ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
5
Casualties in the War: New Research Confirms Vaccines Do Have a …
The government spent a ridiculous £1.2 billionpeddling Big Pharma's rubbish swine flu vaccine but fought tooth and nail over a meagre ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Jul 15»
6
Investments in Punjab dip by 93% in 8 years: Assocham
... of Rs 36,650 crore in 2007-08 which has declined to a meagre Rs 2,600 crore in 2014-15, registering a fall of around 93%," the study said. «Times of India, Jul 15»
7
HUL Q1 profit flat, sales weak despite higher ad spend
Net profit grew a meagre 0.22% to Rs.1,059.14 crore in the three months ended 30 June from Rs.1,056.85 crore a year ago, the company said ... «Livemint, Jul 15»
8
Opinion: Too few women on Osheaga stages
In total, 252 male artists comprised 86 per cent of all performers, while 41 female artists comprised a meagre 14 per cent. Friday, July 31: 40 ... «Montreal Gazette, Jul 15»
9
Yemen's footballers, winning against the odds
After years of scraping by as professionals on meagre salaries and largely being ignored, the players were at last celebrities. Journalists jostled ... «Middle East Eye, Jul 15»
10
Does this exiled winger deserve another chance at Chelsea?
But for a player who once cost the Blues a meagre £9million, qualifies as home-grown – both under the current system and Greg Dyke's ... «FootballFanCast.com, Jul 15»

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