homeless
Use Homeless in a sentence
lɪs adjective
1.
without a home: a homeless child.
noun ( used with a plural verb )
2.
the homeless, persons who lack permanent housing.
Origin:
1605–15
1605–15
Related forms
home·less·ly, adverb
home·less·ness, noun
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homeless (ˈhəʊmlɪs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| a. having nowhere to live | |
| b. (as collective noun; preceded by the): the homeless | |
| 'homelessness | |
| —n | |
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Homeless
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
Earlier in her life, a careless marriage had fallen apart, leaving her homeless.
The final tally is likely to run into the tens of thousands dead, many more wounded and many more still left homeless.
In one sense the music was, as it had never been before, homeless.
In an ideal world there would be no homeless animals, but that is not the case.
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