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povertie

povertie is the obsolete spelling of poverty.

Meaning of poverty

Noun

poverty (usually uncountable, plural poverties)

  1. (usually) The quality or state of being poor; lack of money
    • get into poverty
  2. (usually) A deficiency of something needed or desired
    • poverty of soil

Forms of povertie

pluralpoverties

Questions about povertie

What is povertie the obsolete spelling of?
Povertie is the obsolete spelling of poverty.

Words near povertie in the dictionary

  1. poverishes
  2. poverishing
  3. poverishment
  4. povertician
  5. poverticians
  6. povertie
  7. poverties
  8. povertous
  9. poverty
  10. poverty button
  11. poverty buttons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: povertie (page history and authors); poverty (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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