Definition of homeless in English:
(Of a person) without a home, and therefore typically living on the streets: the plight of young homeless people (as plural noun the homeless) charities for the homeless
More example sentences
- Throughout the area, we will seek to bring homeless people off the streets and into our centres.
- How many times have you been asked in the street for some money from a seemingly homeless person or a beggar?
- A homeless woman is back on the streets again after being evicted from a telephone box.
destitute, down and out, derelict, itinerant
formalof no fixed abode
homeless people, vagrants, down-and-outs, tramps, beggars, vagabonds, itinerants, transients, migrants, derelicts, drifters, beachcombers;
North American hobos;
Australian/New Zealand informalderros
South African informalouties
formalpeople of no fixed abode
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