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Translate poverty from English to French

Summary

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poverty:
- pauvreté; misère; besoin; privation
Wiktionary:
- poverty → pauvreté, pénurie
- poverty → clochardiser
- poverty → pauvreté

English

Detailed Translations for poverty from English to French

poverty:

poverty [the ~] nom

the poverty (lack; paucity; destitution; dearth; hardship; penury; need; want)
la pauvreté; la misère; le besoin
- pauvreté [la ~] nom
- misère [la ~] nom
- besoin [le ~] nom
the poverty (deprivation; hardship)
la privation
- privation [la ~] nom
the poverty
la pauvreté
- pauvreté [la ~] nom

Translation Matrix for poverty:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
besoin	dearth; destitution; hardship; lack; need; paucity; penury; poverty; want	adversity; bad luck; crisis; deficiency; destitution; emergency situation; famine; indigentness; lack; misfortune; need; neediness; needyness; of limited means; paucity; poorness; reverse; scantiness; scarcity; shortage; state of emergency; tightness; trouble; want
misère	dearth; destitution; hardship; lack; need; paucity; penury; poverty; want	adversity; bad condition; bad luck; blows; calamity; catastrophe; deficiency; destitution; disaster; disasters; discomforts; famine; grief; helplessness; hollowness; lack; lankiness; leanness; meagerness; meagreness; miserable condition; misery; misfortune; misfortunes; necessity; need; needyness; parsimony; paucity; poor situation; poorness; problems; punches; reverse; sadness; scantiness; scarcity; shortage; skinniness; slenderness; sorrow; sparsity; squalor; thinness; tightness; trouble; troubles; want
pauvreté	dearth; destitution; hardship; lack; need; paucity; penury; poverty; want	adversity; depravedness; destituteness; destitution; disaster; famine; frugality; fumblingness; harbourless; hollowness; indigentness; lankiness; leanness; meagerness; meagreness; necessity; need; neediness; needyness; of limited means; parsimony; paucity; plainness; poorness; scantiness; scarcity; seediness; shabbiness; shortage; simpleness; simplicity; skinniness; skinnyness; slenderness; sobriety; sparsity; thinness; tightness
privation	deprivation; hardship; poverty	denial; deprivedness
-	impoverishment; poorness

Synonyms for "poverty":

poorness; impoverishment; financial condition; economic condition

Antonyms for "poverty":

wealth

Related Definitions for "poverty":

the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions¹

Wiktionary Translations for poverty:

poverty

noun

quality or state of being poor
- poverty → pauvreté

poverty

verb

Devenir clochard.
- clochardiser → poverty; go to pot

noun

Indigence, manque des choses nécessaires à la vie.
- pauvreté → poverty
Caractère de ce qui est pauvre.
- pauvreté → poverty
État de ce qui est insuffisant.
- pauvreté → poverty
extrême disette.
- pénurie → sparsity; scarcity; shortage; poverty; misery; lack

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• poverty	→ pauvreté	↔ armoede — de toestand waarin iemand leeft die zeer weinig middelen voor zijn levensonderhoud heeft.

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