alms-giving

1. 1.

   making voluntary contributions to aid the poor

   Synonymsalmsgiving

   Broadergiving

Questions about alms-giving

What does alms-giving mean?

alms-giving means "making voluntary contributions to aid the poor".

How many syllables are in alms-giving?

alms-giving has 3 syllables: alms--gi-ving. The stress falls on "alms-".

What is another word for alms-giving?

Close synonyms include almsgiving. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alms-giving a common word?

alms-giving is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.