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Definition of Poverty

Poverty The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need. Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas. Related Definitions: Any, Are, As, Being, Blood, Constitute, Deficiency, Desired, Ideas, Indigence, Indigent, Need, Needed, Of, Or, Poor, Poverty, Quality, Richness, Scarcity, Soil, State, Subsistence, That, The, Want

Poverty Quotations You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. Bill Cosby Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. Mother Teresa It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. Mother Teresa Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. Barack Obama Poverty is the worst form of violence. Mohandas Gandhi

Poverty Translations poverty in Afrikaans is armoede poverty in Danish is fattigdom poverty in Dutch is gebrek, armoede poverty in German is Armut {f}, verarmt, Armut {f} poverty in Latin is ieiunitas, paupertas poverty in Norwegian is fattigdom poverty in Portuguese is pobreza poverty in Spanish is pobreza, indigencia poverty in Swedish is fattigdom, armod

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