HOMELESS

dispossessed, homeless, roofless

(adjective) physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security; “made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another”- James Stern

homeless, stateless

(adjective) without nationality or citizenship; “stateless persons”

homeless

(noun) poor people who unfortunately do not have a home to live in; “the homeless became a problem in the large cities”

homeless, homeless person

(noun) someone unfortunate without housing; “a homeless was found murdered in Central Park”

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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GUILLOTINE

(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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