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1 mendicancy
nounнищенство; попрошайничество* * *(n) нищенство; попрошайничество* * *нищенство; попрошайничество* * *[men·di·can·cy || 'mendɪkənsɪ] n. нищенство, попрошайничество* * ** * *нищенство -
2 mendicancy
n книжн. нищенство; попрошайничествоСинонимический ряд:1. beggary (noun) beggary; bumming; cadging; mendicity; mooching; panhandling2. indigence (noun) abjection; destituteness; destitution; distress; indigence; lack; pauperism; poverty -
3 beggary
1. n нищета, нужда; крайняя бедность2. n собир. нищие, нищая братия3. n притон нищих4. n нищенствоСинонимический ряд:1. mendicancy (noun) bumming; cadging; mendicancy; mendicity; mooching; panhandling2. poverty (noun) abjection; borasca; destituteness; destitution; distress; impecuniousness; impoverishment; indigence; indigency; lack; need; neediness; pauperism; pennilessness; penury; poorness; poverty; privation; unprosperousness; want -
4 poverty
1. n бедность, нищета2. n скудость, бедность3. n нехватка, отсутствиеpoverty is no sin — бедность — не порок
Синонимический ряд:1. barrenness (noun) barrenness; deficiency; sterility; unfruitfulness2. beggary (noun) abjection; beggary; borasca; destituteness; destitution; distress; impecuniousness; impoverishment; indigence; indigency; insolvency; mendicancy; need; neediness; pauperism; pennilessness; penury; poorness; privation; unprosperousness; want3. shortage (noun) dearth; defect; deficit; exigency; failure; inadequacy; insufficience; insufficiency; jejuneness; lack; meagerness; meagreness; paucity; scantiness; scarceness; scarcity; shortageАнтонимический ряд:abundance; fruitfulness; opulence; plenty; riches; wealth -
5 pauperism
n пауперизм, нищетаСинонимический ряд:poverty (noun) abjection; beggary; borasca; destituteness; destitution; distress; impecuniousness; impoverishment; indigence; indigency; lack; mendicancy; need; neediness; pennilessness; penury; poorness; poverty; privation; unprosperousness; want
См. также в других словарях:
mendicancy squad — noun police who arrested beggars and homeless people It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the look out for the mendicancy squad. The Gift of the Magi O. Henry 1906 … Wiktionary
mendicancy — noun 1. a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) • Syn: ↑beggary, ↑begging • Derivationally related forms: ↑mendicant, ↑beg (for: ↑beggary) … Useful english dictionary
mendicancy — noun Date: 1711 1. the condition of being a beggar 2. the practice of begging … New Collegiate Dictionary
mendicancy — noun The act or state of being a mendicant … Wiktionary
mendicancy — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition of being a beggar: beggary, mendicity. See RICH … English dictionary for students
mendicant — [ mɛndɪk(ə)nt] adjective given to begging. ↘of or denoting a religious order originally dependent on alms. noun a beggar. ↘a member of a mendicant order. Derivatives mendicancy noun mendicity noun Origin ME: from L. mendicant , mendicare beg ,… … English new terms dictionary
mendicant — /ˈmɛndəkənt / (say menduhkuhnt) adjective 1. begging, practising begging, or living on alms: *reduction to a remnant, and final relegation to the position of a mendicant caste –c.d. rowley, 1970. 2. relating to or characteristic of a beggar.… …
begging — noun a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) • Syn: ↑beggary, ↑mendicancy • Derivationally related forms: ↑mendicant (for: ↑mendicancy), ↑beg ( … Useful english dictionary
mendicity — noun the state of being a beggar or mendicant they were reduced to mendicancy • Syn: ↑beggary, ↑mendicancy • Hypernyms: ↑indigence, ↑need, ↑penury, ↑pauperism, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
-cy — noun suffix Etymology: Middle English cie, from Anglo French, from Latin tia, partly from t (final stem consonant) + ia y, partly from Greek tia, teia, from t (final stem consonant) + ia, eia y 1. action ; practice < mendicancy > … New Collegiate Dictionary
mendicity — noun Etymology: Middle English mendicite, from Middle French mendicité, from Latin mendicitat , mendicitas, from mendicus Date: 15th century mendicancy … New Collegiate Dictionary
