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How to pronounce poor
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What does poor mean?
adjWith no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
“We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes.”
Of low quality.
“That was a poor performance.”
Worthy of pity.
“Oh, you poor thing, you're drenched!”
nounThe poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.
“The poor are always with us.”
the second-to-last placer in Tycoon
verbSynonym of impoverish, to make poor.
To become poor.
“The mone of this realme is born out in gret quantite and the realme puryt of the sammyn.”
To call someone poor.
“Miss Lavinia... put in that she didn't want to be ‘poored by pa,’ or anybody else.”
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