transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈpä-vər-tē ]
noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English poverte, from Anglo-French poverté, from Latin paupertat-, paupertas, from pauper poor — more at poor
Date: 12th century
1.
a. : the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions
b. : renunciation as a member of a religious order of the right as an individual to own property
2. : scarcity , dearth
3.
a. : debility due to malnutrition
b. : lack of fertility
Synonyms:
poverty , indigence , penury , want , destitution mean the state of one with insufficient resources. poverty may cover a range from extreme want of necessities to an absence of material comforts
the extreme poverty of the slum dwellers
indigence implies seriously straitened circumstances
the indigence of her years as a graduate student
penury suggests a cramping or oppressive lack of money
a catastrophic illness that condemned them to years of penury
want and destitution imply extreme poverty that threatens life itself through starvation or exposure
lived in a perpetual state of want
the widespread destitution in countries beset by famine