poverty

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The quality or state of being poor; lack of money

   get into poverty

2. 2
   noun

   A deficiency of something needed or desired

   poverty of soil

3. 3
   noun

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

Etymology

From Middle English poverte, from Old French poverté (Modern French pauvreté), from Latin paupertās, from pauper (“poor”) + -tas (“noun of state suffix”). Cognates include pauper, poor.