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Definition of Homeless
1. Adjective. Without nationality or citizenship. "Stateless persons"
2. Noun. Someone unfortunate without housing. "A homeless was found murdered in Central Park"
Generic synonyms: Unfortunate, Unfortunate Person
Specialized synonyms: Bag Lady
3. Adjective. Physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security. "Made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another"
4. Noun. Poor people who unfortunately do not have a home to live in. "The homeless became a problem in the large cities"
Definition of Homeless
1. a. Destitute of a home.
Definition of Homeless
1. Adjective. Lacking a permanent place of residence. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Homeless
1. lacking a home [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homeless
Literary usage of Homeless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Security in the Americasedited by Georges Fauriol edited by Georges Fauriol (2008)
"Shelter and Street Night (S-Night) The Census Bureau collected data for various
components of the homeless population at different stages in the 1990 census ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"homeless! A DUET OF DESPONDENCY. [The National Portrait Gallery, ... Then say is
it loyal, then cay is it rational, Leaving us homeless and out in the cold ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1852)
"homeless. They have exhibited, for the most part, neither ghosts vanishing into
thin | air, nor beings surrounded by conventional graces, nor hateful vice ..."
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