homeless

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   the homeless became a problem in the large cities

2. 2
   noun

   someone unfortunate without housing

   a homeless was found murdered in Central Park

3. 3
   adj

   Lacking a permanent place of residence.

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

4. 4
   adj

   Containing no place that might be called home.

   But I should turn mine ears and hear The moanings of the homeless sea, ⁠The sound of streams that swift or slow ⁠Draw down Æonian hills, and sow The dust of continents to be; […]

5. 5
   noun

   A person who is homeless.

   Oszlár Kálmán András, Yoga in the Bed: Tantric Continence & Spiritual Intimacy […] the jobseekers and homelesses or even the future prime minister, all of us are involved in formation of the new world.

6. 6
   adj

   physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security

7. 7
   adj

   without nationality or citizenship

Etymology

From Middle English *homles, *hamles, from Old English hāmlēas (“homeless”), equivalent to home + -less. Cognate with Dutch heemloos, Danish hjemløs (“homeless”), Swedish hemlös (“homeless”). Compare also German heimatlos (“homeless”), Icelandic heimilislaus (“homeless”), West Frisian dakleas (“homeless”, literally “having no roof, roofless”).