Definitions for homeless
ˈhoʊm lɪshome·less

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. homeless, homeless personnoun

   someone unfortunate without housing

   "a homeless was found murdered in Central Park"

2. homelessadjective

   poor people who unfortunately do not have a home to live in

   "the homeless became a problem in the large cities"

3. homeless, statelessadjective

   without nationality or citizenship

   "stateless persons"

4. dispossessed, homeless, rooflessadjective

   physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security

   "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another"- James Stern

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. homelessadjective

   Lacking a permanent place of residence.

   Whenever I pass the park, I see the homeless people sleeping on the benches.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Homelessadjective

   destitute of a home

   Etymology: [AS. hmleas.]

British National Corpus

1. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'homeless' in Adjectives Frequency: #996

How to pronounce homeless?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

How to say homeless in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of homeless in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of homeless in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of homeless in a Sentence

1. United States:

   When my son was in Kindergarten, one of his classmates was a homeless girl, she always stared at my son's lunch pail, and my son always gave her something to eat. I felt like I( could) do something. I can cook. So that's how I started.

2. Paul Boden:

   It's so indicative of how dehumanizing we've become about homeless people, if you are going to hose somebody down, they are probably going to move. Water is a very effective tool to get someone to move, and it's become a tool in addressing homeless in America today. It's pretty sad.

3. Molly MacDonald:

   I kind of thought it would be better if cancer had taken my life, if I had an advanced disease and died my children would not be homeless.

4. Gianno Caldwell:

   Fox News political analyst Gianno Caldwell, author of' Taken for Granted,' talks to homeless about the coronavirus crisis. Until this thing runs out, I dont think we can be overly prepared, or cautious, or guarded.

5. Ashlee Marie Preston:

   I was discriminated against in my job, I was fired, I became homeless, I had to engage in survival sex work. I became a drug addict because I didn't know how to navigate survival on the streets.

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