Thesaurus:beggar
English
Noun
Sense: a person who requests the help of someone, often in the form of money
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- Abraham man (archaic, UK, slang)
- autem mort (archaic, UK, cant)
- Bedlam beggar (archaic, UK, slang)
- cyberbeggar
- God's minstrel (archaic, UK, slang)
- palliard (archaic)
- Poor Tom (archaic, UK, slang)
- Tom of Bedlam (archaic, UK, slang)
- Tom of Bedlam's man (archaic, UK, slang)
- walleteer (archaic)
Hypernyms
Various
See also
Further reading
- “767. petitioner” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “804. poverty” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “beggar” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
- Some synonyms at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.