beggary

Other forms of beggary

plural

beggaries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about beggary

What does beggary mean?

beggary means "a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in beggary?

beggary has 3 syllables: beg-ga-ry. The stress falls on "beg".

What is another word for beggary?

Close synonyms include begging, mendicancy, mendicancy, mendicity. 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 beggary a common word?

beggary 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.