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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. someone unfortunate without housing;
- Example: "a homeless was found murdered in Central Park"
[syn: homeless, homeless person]

2. poor people who unfortunately do not have a home to live in;
- Example: "the homeless became a problem in the large cities"


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. without nationality or citizenship;
- Example: "stateless persons"
[syn: homeless, stateless]

2. physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security;
- Example: "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another"- James Stern
[syn: dispossessed, homeless, roofless]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Homeless \Home"less\, a. [AS. h[=a]mleas.] Destitute of a home. -- Home"less*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

homeless adj 1: without nationality or citizenship; "stateless persons" [syn: homeless, 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, homeless, roofless] n 1: someone unfortunate without housing; "a homeless was found murdered in Central Park" [syn: homeless, homeless person] 2: poor people who unfortunately do not have a home to live in; "the homeless became a problem in the large cities"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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unescorted, unestablished, unfriended, unharbored, unhoused, unplaced, unseconded, unsettled, unsupported, vagabond, withdrawn, without a sou