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# poverty

«poverty» in Mova's school dictionary: **Being very poor; not having enough money for food…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (poverty, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Being very poor; not having enough money for food, clothes or a home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poverty/#m1)

2) (formal) A lack of something: poverty of ideas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poverty/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history, geography and citizenship lessons, poverty is a big problem that charities and governments try to fix. In stories it shows hard lives (like in Dickens). Phrases: live in poverty, poverty line, extreme poverty, end poverty.

### examples

- Many families lived in poverty in Victorian times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poverty/#x1)
- Charities help people in poverty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poverty/#x2)
- Poverty means not having enough to eat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poverty/#x3)
- Our school collected food to fight poverty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poverty/#x4)
- He grew up in poverty but became a doctor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poverty/#x5)
- Ending poverty is a world goal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poverty/#x6)
- It was indeed poverty arrayed in rags. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poverty/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: no «a», no plural. Adjective: poor. Talk about it with respect; being poor is not a person's fault.

### In the corpora

- [Christian Aid, CAFOD, Tearfund, the Salvation Army and Catholic Charities help people in poverty and disaster.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity/13/)
- [People live longer where there is clean water, enough food, good doctors and peace; poverty and war shorten lives.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/52-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live/14/)
- [So shall thy poverty come as a runner, and thy want as an armed man.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.152/)
- [The rich man's wealth is his strong city; the ruin of the poor is their poverty.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.273/)
- [Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction; but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.367/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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