Pauper
noun
A very poor person, especially one who receives help from public funds.
The government is trying to help the thousands of paupers in the city.
Often appears as...
- die a pauper
- pauper's grave
Usage tips
Formal
noun
A person who has no money and owns nothing.
He died a pauper without friends or family to mourn him.
Often appears as...
- live as a pauper
- pauper's life
Usage tips
Formal
noun
A person who is extremely poor, especially one lacking the means to provide for oneself.
The harsh economic conditions have turned many previously wealthy individuals into paupers.
Often appears as...
- pauper's pension
- reduced to a pauper
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
noun
A very poor person, especially one who receives help from public funds.
The government is trying to help the thousands of paupers in the city.
Often appears as...
- die a pauper
- pauper's grave
Usage tips
Formal
noun
A person who has no money and owns nothing.
He died a pauper without friends or family to mourn him.
Often appears as...
- live as a pauper
- pauper's life
Usage tips
Formal
noun
A person who is extremely poor, especially one lacking the means to provide for oneself.
The harsh economic conditions have turned many previously wealthy individuals into paupers.
Often appears as...
- pauper's pension
- reduced to a pauper
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Public Assistance
Pauper often implies getting help, like welfare, from the government.
After losing his job, he became a pauper, reliant on public assistance.
Pro Tip 2/2Historical Usage
In history, 'pauper' was a legal term for those supported at public expense.
In the 19th century, paupers were sent to workhouses.
Pro Tip 1/2Public Assistance
Pauper often implies getting help, like welfare, from the government.
After losing his job, he became a pauper, reliant on public assistance.
Pro Tip 2/2Historical Usage
In history, 'pauper' was a legal term for those supported at public expense.
In the 19th century, paupers were sent to workhouses.
Pro Tip 1/2Public Assistance
Pauper often implies getting help, like welfare, from the government.
After losing his job, he became a pauper, reliant on public assistance.
Pro Tip 2/2Historical Usage
In history, 'pauper' was a legal term for those supported at public expense.
In the 19th century, paupers were sent to workhouses.
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Quote examples
Dorothea Dix
American Activist
Society during the last hundred years has been alternately perplexed and encouraged respecting the two great questions: how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship?
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Denise Austin
American Author
I don't believe in strict diets or starving yourself; eat three meals a day. I believe in eating a good breakfast, a good lunch and a light dinner. Eat breakfast like a king, eat lunch like a queen, and eat dinner like a pauper. Your ultimate goal is to eat all the basic food groups in those three different meals.
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F. Sionil Jose
Filipino Writer
In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also poets who sang and entertained prince and pauper.
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Carter G. Woodson
American Historian
The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.
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Herman Melville
American Novelist
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
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Charlie Brooker
English Critic
The sole purpose of a crown is to make anyone not wearing one feel like an insignificant pauper. They're obscene to the point of satire.
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Mark Twain
American Writer
India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
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Imelda Marcos
Celebrity
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
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Suniel Shetty
Indian Actor
I live by this rule - breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.
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Boney Kapoor
Indian Producer
I may have been in financial difficulties, but I'm not a pauper.
Quote examples
Dorothea Dix
American Activist
Society during the last hundred years has been alternately perplexed and encouraged respecting the two great questions: how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship?
Quote examples
Denise Austin
American Author
I don't believe in strict diets or starving yourself; eat three meals a day. I believe in eating a good breakfast, a good lunch and a light dinner. Eat breakfast like a king, eat lunch like a queen, and eat dinner like a pauper. Your ultimate goal is to eat all the basic food groups in those three different meals.
Quote examples
F. Sionil Jose
Filipino Writer
In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also poets who sang and entertained prince and pauper.
Quote examples
Carter G. Woodson
American Historian
The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.
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Herman Melville
American Novelist
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
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Charlie Brooker
English Critic
The sole purpose of a crown is to make anyone not wearing one feel like an insignificant pauper. They're obscene to the point of satire.
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Mark Twain
American Writer
India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
Quote examples
Imelda Marcos
Celebrity
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
Quote examples
Suniel Shetty
Indian Actor
I live by this rule - breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.
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Boney Kapoor
Indian Producer
I may have been in financial difficulties, but I'm not a pauper.
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