Definitions for beg
bɛgbeg

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. beg, implore, prayverb

   call upon in supplication; entreat

   "I beg you to stop!"

2. solicit, beg, tapverb

   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"

3. begverb

   ask to obtain free

   "beg money and food"

4. begverb

   dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted

   "beg the question"; "beg the point in the discussion"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Begverb

   1. To ask; to seek by petition.

   He went to Pilate, and begged the body. Matth. xxvii. 58.

   2. To take any thing for granted, without evidence or proof.

   We have not begged any principles or suppositions, for the proof of this; but taking that common ground, which both Moses and all antiquity present. Thomas Burnet, Theory of the Earth.

2. To BEGverb

   To live upon alms; to live by asking relief of others.

   Etymology: beggeren, Germ.

   I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. Luke, xvi. 3.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. beg

   To beg is to earnestly or humbly ask or plead for something from someone. It typically is an expression of needing help, often in situations of poverty or desperation. Additionally, it can also mean to dodge or avoid answering something directly.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Begnoun

   a title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey

2. Begverb

   to ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech

3. Begverb

   to ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house

4. Begverb

   to make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor

5. Begverb

   to take for granted; to assume without proof

6. Begverb

   to ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for

7. Begverb

   to ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Beg

   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 Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. beg

   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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1. BEG

   What does BEG stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the BEG acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BEG

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Beg is ranked #36099 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Beg surname appeared 621 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Beg.
   
   71.8% or 446 total occurrences were Asian.
   18% or 112 total occurrences were White.
   5.6% or 35 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   3.3% or 21 total occurrences were Black.

Matched Categories

1. • Evade
   • Request

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'beg' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3066

2. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'beg' in Verbs Frequency: #734

How to pronounce beg?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say beg in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of beg in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of beg in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of beg in a Sentence

1. Carmen Bolden Day:

   Jelani is a sweetheart... I shouldn't have to beg. I shouldn't have to plead. I shouldn't have to feel that there is a racial disparity, I shouldn't have to feel anything like that, I want these people that have these resources to realize this this could happen to them.

2. Choe Son Hui:

   We will neither beg the U.S. for dialogue nor take the trouble to persuade them if they do not want to sit together with us.

3. Keith Dorsey:

   I decided, let's not call people and beg them to let them in other content houses. Let's just do our own thing... our own local twist to this, let's go where we're respected, where people want to see us win.

4. Rodrigo Duterte:

   I will not plead or beg, but I'm just telling you that lay off the Pag-asa because I have soldiers there.

5. Environment Minister Hussain Rasheed Hassan:

   We have to beg some of these (big) emitters to provide money for us. Is that fair?

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=beg
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=beg
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beg
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=beg
6. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html