What does pauvreté in French mean?

What is the meaning of the word pauvreté in French? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use pauvreté in French.

The word pauvreté in French means poverty, poorness, poor quality, puerility, vacuity, poverty line, poverty threshold, beneath the poverty threshold, beneath the poverty line, live in poverty, live below the poverty line. To learn more, please see the details below.

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Meaning of the word pauvreté

poverty

nom féminin (sans ressources)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
La pauvreté est un fléau social qui laisse les gens sans ressources.
Poverty is a social scourge that leaves people without resources.

poorness, poor quality

nom féminin (insuffisance)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Toute culture est rendue impossible en raison de la pauvreté du sol.
It is impossible to grow anything because of the poorness of the soil.

puerility, vacuity

nom féminin (littéraire (sans valeur)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Son discours n'est que pauvretés.
His speech is nothing but vacuities.

poverty line, poverty threshold

nom masculin (niveau de vie misérable)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

beneath the poverty threshold, beneath the poverty line

locution adverbiale (misérablement)

live in poverty

locution verbale (être pauvre)

(verbal expression: Phrase with special meaning functioning as verb--for example, "put their heads together," "come to an end.")

live below the poverty line

locution verbale (vivre misérablement)

(verbal expression: Phrase with special meaning functioning as verb--for example, "put their heads together," "come to an end.")
De plus en plus de gens vivent en dessous du seuil de pauvreté.

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