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Word | Mendicant |
Portuguese Meaning | mendicante |
a male religious of an order of mendicant preachers of the gospel / a person who lives by begging / Practicing beggary / a pauper who lives by begging / beggar / given to begging. / someone (such as a member of a religious group) who lives by asking people for money or food, | |
Usage | ⇒ Once prosperous he now leads the life of a mendicant ⇒ O noble sir, give alms to the poor, cried Aladdin, playing the mendicant. ⇒ those wretched mendicants on the streets of Calcutta ⇒ Possibly it was sheer vanity and love of easily-won applause that drove him to act out the role of mendicant campus guru. |
Synonyms | beggar, panhandler, pauper, moocher, tramp, sponger, supplicant, cadger, almsman, friar, parasite, freeloader, monk, suppliant, abbot, beadsman, begging, bum, cenobite, fakir, |
Antonyms | midas, imperative, |
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