What does poor person mean?

poor person means "a person with few or no possessions".

What is another word for poor person?

Close synonyms include have-not. 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 poor person a common word?

poor person 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.

poor person — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a person with few or no possessions
Synonymshave-not
Broaderunfortunate
Narrowerwhite trash down-and-out pauper vagrant

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