: having no home or permanent place of residence : unhoused
homelessnessnoun
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According to the bakery, an unnamed suspect believed to be homeless entered the establishment trying to sell cleaning wipes.—Tim Fang, CBS News, 29 Dec. 2025 Up until now, the region has sparsely used the miniature dwellings to house homeless people and relied mostly on congregate shelters and its motel shelter program.—Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 29 Dec. 2025 The state has helped by shifting funding to fill gaps, but the group still had to pull back on things like plans to build a homeless shelter, Ludden says.—Brittney Melton, NPR, 29 Dec. 2025 There are the voiceless — animals don’t have a voice, homeless don’t have a voice, the emotionally disturbed on the subway don’t have a voice, veterans don’t have a voice.—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 28 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for homeless
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of homeless was
before the 12th century
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