🏚️ Without a home 🧑‍🦯 A person without home

homeless

73 1.6

A person who has no home to live in

noun
/ˈhoʊmləs/

: persona sin hogar

The shelter offers support and resources for the homeless looking to find permanent housing.
help the homeless
shelters for the homeless
care for the homeless

They started making little houses for the homeless out of trash cans.

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Examples

You know, a month ago, I was feeding the homeless in Long Beach.

Mafia Mamma (2023)
Yet, homelessness is a persistent and pervasive phenomenon, and many of our nation's homeless experience a chronic loss of home.

Academic text (2011)
The agency for the homeless provides case management services for the family for up to six months.

Academic text (2011)
Do you know she feeds the homeless every weekend?

Courting Mom and Dad (2021)
He works with the homeless a lot.

The Big Hit (1998)
In his experience, the homeless tried not to get involved, preferring to function outside of society.

Fiction book (2000)
Grandma Anna was off feeding the homeless in Cleveland with her church group that weekend.

Fiction book (2000)
In the nine years that I have lived there, the number of homeless has grown frighteningly.

Academic text (1994)
From such research, a portrait of the characteristics and needs of the homeless is beginning to emerge.

Academic text (1994)
Well, between us, we raised 800,000 Francs for the relief of the homeless, and this is a token of their gratitude.

Lisztomania (1975)

Synonyms

homeless person

vshomeless

76 2.3

A person who has no home and often lives on the streets

is the broader label for not having any home to live in

vagrant

vshomeless

25 7.7

A person who has no home and moves from place to place, often begging

is about lacking a home without implying wandering or begging

vagabond

vshomeless

15 7.6

A person who moves from place to place without a home or job

is the basic description of not having a home, not wandering

street person

vshomeless

11 5.6

A person without a home who sleeps outdoors or in public places

is the general term for lacking any home rather than sleeping location

derelict

vshomeless

3 8.4

A person who has no home or job and is ignored by other people

focuses only on not having a home without the neglect emphasis

down-and-out

vshomeless

1 7.7

A person with no money, job, or home

only denotes lacking a home without stressing extreme poverty

houseless

vshomeless

4.4

People who do not have a home to live in

is the more common, everyday term for lacking a home

unhoused

vshomeless

6.7

People who do not have a permanent home

is the simple everyday word for not having a home

rough sleeper

vshomeless

7.1

A person who sleeps outside because they have no home

covers lacking any home, not only sleeping outside

dispossessed

vshomeless

8.1

People who lose their home, land, or property because others force them out

describes lacking a home in general without implying dispossession causes

Antonyms

resident

∞ 1.8

A person who lives in a place for a long time

Compounds

homeless person

76 2.3

A person who has no home and often lives on the streets

homeless dumping

8.2

Waste left by people with no home in public places like streets or parks

How Housed

sheltered

1 3.2

unhoused

1 5.1

homeless

73 1.6

unsheltered

5.4

Surface Forms

homeless singular

homelesses plural

Morphology

homeless = homeless (transparent) = home + less

The noun is a zero-derived use of the adjective 'homeless', and the adjective itself is transparently built from 'home' + '-less'.

Etymology

The word homeless comes from home and the ending -less, which means 'without', so a homeless person is literally 'without a home', and we use it for people who have no place to live.