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Definition of homeless in English:

homeless

adjective 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:

homeless

adjectiveˈhōmləsˈhoʊmləs
  • (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
 
 
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