ALMS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does alms mean? 

• ALMS (noun)
  The noun ALMS has 1 sense:

1. money or goods contributed to the poor

  Familiarity information: ALMS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALMS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Money or goods contributed to the poor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("alms" is a kind of...):

contribution; donation (act of giving in common with others for a common purpose especially to a charity)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

 Context examples 

“It is a shrine of Our Lady,” said Terlake, “and a blind beggar who lives by the alms of those who worship there.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Two days after there came by a travelling fiddler, who began to play under the window and beg alms; and when the king heard him, he said, “Let him come in.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

But the blind palmer would have none of their alms.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is for you also to bear the purse, said the lady; for my sweet lord is of so free and gracious a temper that he would give it gayly to the first who asked alms of him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)