Definition of beg Beg
/bɛˈg/ - [beg] - beg
We found 20 definitions of beg from 7 different sources.
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| beg - call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!" | ||
| implore, pray | ||
| plead appeal or request earnestly; "I pleaded with him to stop" | ||
| beg off, excuse excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with; "excuse someone's behavior"; "She condoned her husband's occasional infidelities" | ||
| crave plead or ask for earnestly | ||
| supplicate ask humbly (for something); "He supplicated the King for clemency" | ||
| importune, insist beg persistently and urgently; "I importune you to help them" | ||
| beg - ask to obtain free; "beg money and food" | ||
| bespeak, request, call for, quest be a signal for or a symptom of; "These symptoms indicate a serious illness"; "Her behavior points to a severe neurosis"; "The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued" | ||
| schnorr, shnorr, cadge, scrounge obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling; "he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends" | ||
| panhandle beg by accosting people in the street and asking for money | ||
| beg - dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted; "beg the question"; "beg the point in the discussion" | ||
| sidestep, fudge, parry, circumvent, elude, dodge, evade, hedge, duck, skirt, put off tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" | ||
| beg - make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently; "Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce"; "My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities" | ||
| solicit, tap | ||
| bespeak, request, call for, quest be a signal for or a symptom of; "These symptoms indicate a serious illness"; "Her behavior points to a severe neurosis"; "The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued" | ||
| quest seek alms, as for religious purposes | ||
| canvass, canvas solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign | ||
| buttonhole, lobby detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- beg (n.)
A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey. - beg (v. t.)
To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech. - beg (v. t.)
To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house. - beg (v. t.)
To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor. - beg (v. t.)
To take for granted; to assume without proof. - beg (v. t.)
To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for. - beg (v. i.)
To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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To plead with someone for help or for a favor; to request urgently or persistently. -
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To make a request in a humble manner; to call upon in supplication. -
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To ask to obtain free.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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beg, v.i. to ask alms or charity, esp. habitually (with of, from; for, of the thing asked).—v.t. to ask earnestly: to beseech: to pray: to take for granted what ought to have been proved, esp. in the phrase in logic, 'to beg the question'—the fallacy of the Petitio Principii:—pr.p. beg′ging; pa.p. begged.—n. Beg′gar, one who begs: one who lives by begging: a mean fellow, a poor fellow—often used with a playful and even affectionate sense.—v.t. to reduce to beggary: to exhaust or impoverish: (fig.) to go beyond the resources of, as of description.—ns. Beg′gardom, the fraternity of beggars; Beg′garliness.—adj. Beggarly, poor: mean: worthless.—adv. meanly.—ns. Beg′gar-my-neigh′bour, a game at cards which goes on till one of the players has gained all the other's cards; Beg′gary, extreme poverty.—adv. Beg′gingly.—To beg off, to obtain another's release through entreaty, to seek that one's self may be relieved of some penalty or liability.—To go a-begging, to be in want of a purchaser, or of a person to fill it (of a situation, &c.). [The ety. is very obscure; the words beg and beggar first appear in the 13th century, and Dr Murray thinks the most likely derivation is from the O. Fr. begart, begard, and begar (L. beghardus = beghard), or its synonym beguine and derivative verb beguigner, beguiner, to act the beguin. The Beghards or Beguines were a lay mendicant order, and in the 13th century mendicants calling themselves by these names swarmed over Western Europe.]
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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A Turkish title, rather vague in its import, and commonly given to superior military officers, ship-captains, and distinguished foreigners. More strictly, it applies to the governor of a small district, who bears a horse-tail as a sign of his rank. Beglerbeg, or more correctly Beilerbegi (“lord of lords”), is the title given to the governor of a province who bears three horse-tails as his badge of honor, and has authority over several begs, agas, etc.
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