homelessadjective
uk/ˈhəʊm.ləs/us/ˈhoʊm.ləs/C1 without a home:
Accommodation needs to be found for thousands of homeless families.
More examples
- She was homeless and had to put her child up for adoption.
- The family were left homeless.
- Providing homeless people with somewhere to stay when the weather is cold only skates round the problem, it doesn't solve it.
- The paper showed a picture of homeless people sleeping on the streets with the caption underneath 'the unacceptable face of capitalism'.
- It might sound callous, but I don't care if he's homeless. He's not living with me!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Homelessness
- bag lady
- be of/have no fixed abode/address idiom
- derelict
- dosser
- down-and-out
- hobo
- hostel
- housing benefit
- mendicant
- on the streets idiom
- rootless
- rough
- sleep
- street
- street people
- tramp
- traveller
- vagabond
- vagrant
- waif
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homelessnoun [ plural ]
uk/ˈhəʊm.ləs/us/ˈhoʊm.ləs/the homeless
C1 people who do not have a home, usually because they are poor
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Homelessness
- bag lady
- be of/have no fixed abode/address idiom
- derelict
- dosser
- down-and-out
- hobo
- hostel
- housing benefit
- mendicant
- on the streets idiom
- rootless
- rough
- sleep
- street
- street people
- tramp
- traveller
- vagabond
- vagrant
- waif
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homelessness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈhəʊm.ləs.nəs/us/ˈhoʊm.ləs.nəs/
C2
One common cause of homelessness is separation or divorce.