Homeless

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Homeless \Home"less\, a. [AS. h[=a]mleas.]
     Destitute of a home. -- {Home"less*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  homeless \home"less\, n. pl.
     Those people who have no permanent residence, especially
     those who live outdoors due to poverty; usually used in the
     definite phrase {the homeless}.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  homeless
       adj 1: without nationality or citizenship; "stateless persons"
              [syn: {stateless}]
       2: physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security;
          "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from
          one country to another"- James Stern [syn: {dispossessed},
           {roofless}]
       n 1: someone with no housing; "the homeless became a problem in
            the large cities" [syn: {homeless person}]
       2: people who are homeless; "the homeless lived on the city
          streets"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "homeless":
     abandoned, alienated, alone, aloof, apart, bankrupt, bums,
     companionless, defenseless, derelict, deserted, desolate,
     destitute, detached, down-and-out, exiled, fatherless, forlorn,
     forsaken, fortuneless, friendless, godforsaken, helpless,
     houseless, in the gutter, in the red, insolvent, insular, isolated,
     kithless, landless, lone, lonely, lonesome, moneyless, motherless,
     out of funds, outcast, penniless, propertyless, removed, rootless,
     separate, separated, single-handed, solitary, solo, stateless,
     unabetted, unaccompanied, unaided, unassisted, unattended,
     unescorted, unestablished, unfriended, unharbored, unhoused,
     unplaced, unseconded, unsettled, unsupported, vagabond, withdrawn,
     without a sou