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mendicant = beggar = friar = panhandler = cadger
• (mendicant)- begging; practicing begging; living on alms, ( , ,
); In that country the preachers are not like
our mendicant orders of friars -- they have two or three suits of clothing,
and they wash sometimes. — The Innocents Abroad;
• (friar)- a member of a usually mendicant Roman Catholic order; In the first
scene of the third act the Duke as a friar speaks to the condemned Claudio. —
The Man Shakespeare;
• (panhandler)- a street beggar; The panhandler sitting on the courthouse
steps was a familiar sight. — The Witness;
• (cadger)- a person who gets a living by begging; Her means of living were
derived from the employment of child-cadger to the Foundling Hospital of
Dublin. — Valentine M'Clutchy;
metropolis : municipality : downtown
• (metropolis)- any large, busy city, ( , ,
); All the most distinguished men of the metropolis were there. —
Napoleon Bonaparte;
• (municipality)- a political unit, such as a city, town, or village,
incorporated for local self-government; It was decided in consequence by a
deliberation of the municipality, that the magistrates should provide for the
repairs. — The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi;
• (downtown)- to or in the main business section of a city, (
, - ); The traffic was starting to open up as we
passed by downtown, the spires of the financial district disappearing in the
upper mist of the storm. — The Narrows;
outskirts = fringes ~ suburbs : hinterlands^ hindmost
• (outskirts)- the part or region remote from a central district, as of a city or
town; They were nearing the outskirt fields of cultivation. — The Island
Pharisees;
• (fringes)- a marginal, peripheral, or secondary part; Mostly cedars and
mesquites on the fringes, a lone cypress waited nearest the water. — The
Man From High Mountain;
• (subrubs)- a usually residential area or community outlying a city; Every
householder had from five to ten acres in the suburbs, and one and a half
close at home; and the people seemed happy. — The Life of Sir Richard Burton;
• (hinterlands)- back country; Many of these prominent activists have been
transferred to isolated prisons in Burma's hinterlands, far from family and
friends;