how to pronounce poverty

/ˈpɒvəti/

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poverty is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of poverty in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… if people at poverty now and make people …”

meaning of poverty

Poverty is a state of deprivation of material resources.

poverty frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word poverty occurs in english on average 31.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.