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POOR MAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does poor man mean?
• POOR MAN (noun)
The noun POOR MAN has 1 sense:
1. a person who is very poor
Familiarity information: POOR MAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who is very poor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
pauper; poor man
Hypernyms ("poor man" is a kind of...):
have-not; poor person (a person with few or no possessions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poor man"):
beggar; mendicant (a pauper who lives by begging)
derelict (a person unable to support himself)
starveling (someone who is starving (or being starved))
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