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Definition of homeless in English: homelessadjective ˈhəʊmlɪsˈhoʊmləs (of a person) without a home, and therefore typically living on the streets. the plight of young homeless people charities for the homeless Example sentencesExamples - Often the homeless live on the streets too long and it's unsuccessful when they are housed.
- The council is struggling to cope with a massive increase in the number of homeless families.
- Perhaps the question we should be asking is where all these young homeless people come from.
- How many times have you been asked in the street for some money from a seemingly homeless person or a beggar?
- In effect, it's the story of a homeless family who have been through a tough time.
- He has been homeless for six years and is on a drug rehabilitation programme.
- Throughout the area, we will seek to bring homeless people off the streets and into our centres.
- A mother and her four daughters are homeless today after a blaze destroyed their house.
- Gloria Bennet is well known for befriending lonely and homeless people in Devizes.
- She explained that out of all the bad things about being homeless, the worst is people ignoring you.
- The vast majority of homeless people are there because they won't conform to the ways of the world.
- People are homeless for many reasons, more reasons than I can discuss here at any rate.
- She told police that she was homeless and had taken part in the fraud to earn some money.
- A homeless woman is back on the streets again after being evicted from a telephone box.
- A homeless man sleeps on a bench, all his worldly goods packed into a shopping trolley.
- He would sit on the pavement, with a sign saying that he was homeless and hungry.
- A family is homeless after fire swept through their house when a dishwasher caught light.
- The homeless are often stereotyped as being tramps or junkies who litter shop doorways.
- He helped in the soup kitchen at a centre for homeless people in inner-city Blackburn.
- They are now homeless and have been offered temporary shelter by Bolton Council.
Synonyms without a roof over one's head, on the streets, vagrant, sleeping rough, living rough destitute, down and out, derelict, itinerant British informal dossing formal of no fixed abode homeless people, vagrants, down-and-outs, tramps, beggars, vagabonds, itinerants, transients, migrants, derelicts, drifters, beachcombers North American hobos Australian bagmen, knockabouts, overlanders, sundowners, whalers New Zealand streeties informal bag ladies British informal dossers North American informal bums, bindlestiffs Australian/New Zealand informal derros South African informal outies formal people of no fixed abode Definition of homeless in US English: homelessadjectiveˈhōmləsˈhoʊmləs (of a person) without a home, and therefore typically living on the streets. the plight of young homeless people charities for the homeless Example sentencesExamples - She explained that out of all the bad things about being homeless, the worst is people ignoring you.
- The vast majority of homeless people are there because they won't conform to the ways of the world.
- In effect, it's the story of a homeless family who have been through a tough time.
- Often the homeless live on the streets too long and it's unsuccessful when they are housed.
- How many times have you been asked in the street for some money from a seemingly homeless person or a beggar?
- A mother and her four daughters are homeless today after a blaze destroyed their house.
- Perhaps the question we should be asking is where all these young homeless people come from.
- The homeless are often stereotyped as being tramps or junkies who litter shop doorways.
- He helped in the soup kitchen at a centre for homeless people in inner-city Blackburn.
- He has been homeless for six years and is on a drug rehabilitation programme.
- The council is struggling to cope with a massive increase in the number of homeless families.
- People are homeless for many reasons, more reasons than I can discuss here at any rate.
- She told police that she was homeless and had taken part in the fraud to earn some money.
- Throughout the area, we will seek to bring homeless people off the streets and into our centres.
- A homeless man sleeps on a bench, all his worldly goods packed into a shopping trolley.
- He would sit on the pavement, with a sign saying that he was homeless and hungry.
- A homeless woman is back on the streets again after being evicted from a telephone box.
- Gloria Bennet is well known for befriending lonely and homeless people in Devizes.
- They are now homeless and have been offered temporary shelter by Bolton Council.
- A family is homeless after fire swept through their house when a dishwasher caught light.
Synonyms without a roof over one's head, on the streets, vagrant, sleeping rough, living rough homeless people, vagrants, down-and-outs, tramps, beggars, vagabonds, itinerants, transients, migrants, derelicts, drifters, beachcombers |