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WordBand 4.5–5.5Core (NGSL)
poor
/poː/
noun1 of 2
without money; not rich
- “In another time, there were poor farmers in that village.”Tatoeba
- “Owing to lack of water, we had a poor crop.”Tatoeba
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adjective2 of 2
With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
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Source: New General Service List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)