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homeless
[ hohm-lis ]
adjective
- without a home or without permanent housing:
a homeless refugee.
noun
- Usually the homeless. Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. people who lack permanent housing or a fixed residence, collectively.
homeless
/ ˈhəʊmlɪs /
adjective
- having nowhere to live
- ( as collective noun; preceded by the )
the homeless
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Derived Forms
- ˈhomelessness, noun
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Other Words From
- home·less·ly adverb
- home·less·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of homeless1
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Example Sentences
Her house in Donetsk, she says, has been taken over by rebels and her family is now all but homeless.
Mark Reay is a handsome model-turned-photographer who is homeless, living in a secret ‘nest’ on top of an apartment building.
Some of these young men are sex workers, homeless, and drug users.
Earlier this month the Vatican announced the installation of free showers for the homeless in public bathrooms in the city-state.
Rome charities estimate that there are around 8,000 homeless people in Rome.
There is, perhaps, in this childish suffering often something more than the sense of being homeless and outcast.
Pride forbade him to confess himself a homeless, penniless vagabond.
The wise man depends on us for his roof and lodging; and without us he would be homeless.
Then she was a little, homeless, orphan girl who was "taken in out of charity" by Uncle Jabez.
But you must not think that she is a homeless child with a torn dress; she looks quite different.
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