homeless

English Online Dictionary. What means homeless‎? What does homeless mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle English *homles, *hamles, from Old English hāmlēas (“homeless”), equivalent to home +‎ -less. Cognate with Dutch heemloos, Danish hjemløs (“homeless”), Swedish hemlös (“homeless”). Compare also German heimatlos (“homeless”), Icelandic heimilislaus (“homeless”), West Frisian dakleas (“homeless”, literally “having no roof, roofless”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhoʊmlɪs/, /ˈhoʊmləs/

Adjective

homeless (not comparable)

1. Lacking a permanent place of residence.
2. (of places) Containing no place that might be called home.

Derived terms

• anti-homeless
• homeless dumping
• homeless shelter
• homelessness
• politically homeless

Related terms

• home

Descendants

• → Japanese: ホームレス (hōmuresu)

Translations

Noun

homeless (plural homelesses)

1. (nonstandard, possibly offensive) A person who is homeless.
   • Oszlár Kálmán András, Yoga in the Bed: Tantric Continence & Spiritual Intimacy

     […] the jobseekers and homelesses or even the future prime minister, all of us are involved in formation of the new world.

See also

• bum
• destitute
• hobo
• tramp
• transient
• vagabond
• unhoused

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English homeless.

Noun

homeless m (plural homeless)

1. homeless

Declension