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alms

noun
🔊/ɑːmz/
🔊/ɑːmz/
 [plural] (old-fashioned)
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  1. money, clothes and food that are given to poor people施舍物；救济金Topics Social issuesc2
    Word OriginOld English ælmysse, ælmesse, from Christian Latin eleemosyna, from Greek eleēmosunē ‘compassion’, from eleēmōn ‘compassionate’, from eleos ‘mercy’.