HOMELESS

dispossessed, homeless, roofless

(adjective) physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security; ā€œmade a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to anotherā€- James Stern

homeless, stateless

(adjective) without nationality or citizenship; ā€œstateless personsā€

homeless

(noun) poor people who unfortunately do not have a home to live in; ā€œthe homeless became a problem in the large citiesā€

homeless, homeless person

(noun) someone unfortunate without housing; ā€œa homeless was found murdered in Central Parkā€

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

homeless (not comparable)

Lacking a permanent place of residence.

Source: Wiktionary


Home"less, a. Etym: [AS.hamleas.]

Definition: Destitute of a home.

– Home"less*ness, n.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

7 January 2025

UNINFORMATIVELY

(adverb) in an uninformative manner; ā€œā€˜I canā€™t tell you when the manager will arrive,ā€™ he said rather uninformativelyā€


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Coffee Trivia

In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.

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