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# alms

«alms» in Mova's school dictionary: **money or food given to poor people** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural alms; no common singular) (old use)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (old use) Alms is money or food given to poor people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alms/#m1)

2) «To beg alms» means to ask for money or food as a poor person. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alms/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales, gifts to the poor, often given by kings or by the church

### examples

- Once two poor women came to the castle to beg alms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alms/#x1)
- The monks gave alms to the hungry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alms/#x2)
- «You do not beg for alms,» said the king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alms/#x3)
- They shared out food and alms to the poor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alms/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «alms» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alms/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.