: having no home or permanent place of residence : unhoused
homelessnessnoun
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San Diego continues to turn several vacant acres next to the airport into a safe parking lot where homeless people can sleep in their vehicles.—Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2025 The movie, which is based on a Belgian novel penned by Belvaux, revolves around a skilled army veteran Skender suffering from PTSD who’s been estranged from his children and their mother, and is now homeless.—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 7 Feb. 2025 As far back as December 2023, eight in 10 Gazans were homeless, according to the United Nations.—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025 Lately he’s imagined starting a new life of sobriety with his girlfriend, who is homeless and using drugs in the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco.—Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for homeless
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of homeless was
before the 12th century
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