Mendicant

Adjective

 * 1) Depending on alms for a living.
 * 2) Of or pertaining to a beggar.
 * 3) Of or pertaining to a member of a religious order forbidden to own property, and who must beg for a living.

Noun

 * 1) A beggar.
 * 2) A religious friar forbidden to own personal property who begs for a living.

Thesaurus
Albigensian, Catharist, Franciscan, Sabbatarian, Trappist, Waldensian, abbacomes, abbot, abstainer, abstinent, anchorite, anchoritic, ascetic, austere, beadsman, beggar, beggared, beggarly, begging, bereaved, bereft, bhikshu, brother, bum, bummer, cadger, cadging, caloyer, celibate, cenobite, conventual, conventual prior, coupon clippers, deprived, dervish, disadvantaged, drone, eremitic, fakir, flagellant, fleeced, freeloader, friar, ghettoized, grand prior, hermit, hieromonach, hobo, idle rich, impoverished, in need, in rags, in want, indigent, lay abbot, lay brother, leisure class, loafer, lounge lizard, lumpen proletariat, mendicant friar, mendicant order, monastic, monk, moocher, mooching, necessitous, needy, nonworker, on relief, out at elbows, palmer, panhandler, parasite, pauperized, petitionary, pilgrim, pillar saint, pillarist, poverty-stricken, prayerful, precative, prior, puritan, puritanical, religieux, religious, rentiers, rigoristic, sannyasi, schnorrer, scrounger, scrounging, self-denying, spiv, sponger, starveling, stripped, stylite, suppliant, supplicant, supplicating, supplicatory, the unemployable, the unemployed, tramp, underprivileged, wedded to poverty, yogi, yogin

Etymology
From mendicans:, present participle of mendico:.

Adjective

 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Latin:


 * Polish: żebrzący
 * Russian: нищенствующий
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish:


 * Russian: нищенский


 * Finnish:


 * Spanish:

Noun

 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: mendigo
 * Russian:, попрошайка
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: kerjäläismunkki
 * German: Bettelmönch
 * Manx: braar boght


 * Polish: mnich żebrzący
 * Russian: нищенствующий монах

Related terms

 * mendicant order