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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
homeless
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ They came to Hammersmith in London and applied for accommodation as homeless persons.
▪ The incentive for the men was that as homeless itinerants their social security would be under £20 a week.
▪ The official statistics only include those accepted as homeless by local authority, and they are mainly households with children.
▪ They applied to the local authority for accommodation as homeless persons, but were rejected on the ground that they had accommodation.
intentionally
▪ They would then be tagged as intentionally homeless.
▪ The court held that they were intentionally homeless and so disqualified.
▪ It evidently included an assertion that the local authority had wrongly decided that he was intentionally homeless.
■ NOUN
child
▪ But they were not used to wandering by themselves, in the manner of the later homeless children.
▪ Even today, most of its 300odd boarders are orphans or homeless children.
▪ Primary School children from the Oxfordshire village of Standlake have been putting together individual boxes for the thousands of homeless children.
▪ In fact, 78 percent of the homeless children were under the age of six.
▪ Including lots of homeless children and adults on the streets, lots of violence and crimes.
family
▪ The scheme to buy up empty houses and rent them to homeless families will help to solve two problems.
▪ The town has a growing problem of homeless families with more than 100 on the waiting list.
▪ He unveiled a radical £750 million package to buy up 20,000 empty houses for the use of homeless families.
▪ Housing benefit is over budget, partly because of the rise in the number of homeless families having to be expensively bed-and-breakfasted.
▪ They also include some people from ethnic minorities, homeless and rootless people, homeless families, and substance misusers.
man
▪ Approaching 1,000 homeless men have been temporarily housed there since it opened.
▪ Police were interviewing another homeless man who was believed to be in the building at the time of the fire.
▪ First the day-care center went; then a long-established restaurant; then a shelter for homeless men.
▪ Apparently they're up to here in woolies, but nobody ever remembers that homeless men need underpants too.
▪ The stabbings occurred just one night after two homeless men were stabbed several times while they slept only a few blocks away.
▪ Nearly ninety homeless men staying at Newcastle's palace signed a petition protesting against the food.
▪ Inside the library, homeless men in every condition take up many of the chairs throughout the building.
people
▪ Nearly 30 percent were put off by all the homeless people and beggars, up 6 points from 1989.
▪ She turns away up to 6 homeless people a day.
▪ Thirty-two homeless or previously homeless people responded to the study by voice mail.
▪ Now they were told that homeless people from all over New York could be entitled to one of the apartments.
▪ Councils and housing associations will be allowed to lease or buy empty homes in order to provide accommodation for homeless people.
▪ We heard that the city was in ruins and that it was filled with thousands of starving, homeless people.
person
▪ Consider too the vulnerability of the homeless person with no fixed abode.
▪ Nor did he pledge to provide every homeless person with a warm, clean place to sleep.
▪ The homeless person was not interested in Peter's box.
▪ Nevertheless, I sense a growing coldness toward homeless persons, as well as toward welfare recipients in general.
▪ As you have been informed, my council makes one offer only to homeless persons.
▪ A statute created an obligation on the defendant council to provide housing for homeless persons.
▪ This was another case which homeless persons occupying temporary accommodation.
▪ The homeless persons sought judicial review of that resolution by the local authority.
problem
▪ But with the growing homeless problem, ministers admit that the attempt has failed.
shelter
▪ Last month, children accounted for 1, 412 of the 5, 299 people living in homeless shelters in the city.
▪ Everyone knew that would drive up spending on welfare and homeless shelters.
▪ They never had enough money, so they lived in various hotels, apartments and homeless shelters.
▪ They lived in hotels and homeless shelters.
▪ They enjoyed researching everything from homeless shelters to environmental advocacy groups.
▪ They lived in a homeless shelter until a room opened up at the Reiss Hotel.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The earthquake left thousands of people homeless.
▪ The possibility that he might become homeless frightened him.
▪ There is a system of shelters for homeless people.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It was written, edited, illustrated and compiled by homeless and formerly homeless people in San Francisco.
▪ Just a few years ago, Tanya was homeless and begging for money in front of a supermarket in New York City.
▪ One family has been left homeless.
▪ Pleas that the couple and their two young children will be homeless and facing financial ruin have fallen on deaf ears.
▪ San Antonio and Seattle were among the 60 percent of cities reporting the length of time people are homeless increased in 1996.
▪ Thousands of slum-dwellers were killed, and an estimated 100,000 people were made homeless.
▪ What value is our own home if we can not feel for those who are homeless?
▪ Without proper treatment and support, many end up homeless, unemployed for long periods, and cut off from their families.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
homeless

homeless \home"less\, n. pl. Those people who have no permanent residence, especially those who live outdoors due to poverty; usually used in the definite phrase the homeless.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
homeless

1610s, from home (n.) + -less. Old English had hamleas, but the modern word probably is a new formation. As a noun meaning "homeless persons," by 1857.

Wiktionary
homeless

a. lack a permanent place of residence.

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WordNet
homeless

  1. adj. without nationality or citizenship; "stateless persons" [syn: stateless]

  2. physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security; "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another"- James Stern [syn: dispossessed, roofless]

  3. n. someone with no housing; "the homeless became a problem in the large cities" [syn: homeless person]

  4. people who are homeless; "the homeless lived on the city streets"

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Wikipedia
Homeless (disambiguation)

Homeless may refer to:

  • Homelessness, the condition of people without a regular dwelling
  • Homeless (film), a 2006 documentary on homelessness
  • "Homeless" (Leona Lewis song)
  • "Homeless" (Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo song)
  • "Homeless" (Marina Kaye song)
Homeless (Leona Lewis song)

"Homeless" is a song by British singer-songwriter Leona Lewis from her debut studio album, Spirit (2007). The song was written by Swedish songwriter Jörgen Elofsson and produced by Steve Mac. Musically, it is an R&B Power ballad, with instrumentation consisting of a piano and a guitar. The song's lyrics revolve around Lewis singing about waiting for her boyfriend to come home to where she is waiting for him, but feels homeless without him. The song garnered mixed reviews from music critics, some of whom praised Lewis's vocal performance but criticized its composition. Upon the release of Spirit, the song debuted at number 173 on the UK Singles Chart on the strength of digital download sales. Lewis performed "Homeless" at the annual WXKS-FM Boston KISS Concert in 2008, along with " Bleeding Love" and " Better in Time". It was also included on the set list of The Labyrinth tour in 2010.

Homeless (Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo song)

"Homeless" is a 1986 song by Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo lead singer Joseph Shabalala.

The song was the first recorded by Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo for Simon's album Graceland. The song launched the international career of the South African group and introduced Zulu isicathimiya music to new western audiences. Shabalala provided the music, from the melody of a traditional Zulu wedding tune, and new Zulu words. Simon provided the English lyrics. The text has been taken as protest music, though Shabalala has said that the phrase "we are homeless" is similar to the words a Zulu uses when proposing to his bride.

Homeless (Marina Kaye song)

"Homeless" is the debut single of the winner of La France a un incroyable Talent (France Got Talent) Marina Kaye. The song was written and composed by Marina "Kaye" Dalmas with Mathias Wollo and Nina Woodford and is taken from Marina Key's debut EP also called Homeless on capitol Records (Universal Music France). The release was accompanied by a music video directed by Hugo Becker.

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Usage examples of "homeless".

Among their children, comfortable men Gather about great fires, and yet feel cold: Alas, then, for the homeless beggar old!

And Algor was receiving its wandering homeless ones, who were coming home at last.

The last time you blackballed someone, that Garou came into the Tenderloin killing homeless as a form of revenge.

Maybe there was something within the fetish that made blackballed Bone Gnawers want to kill the homeless.

I like to think that the homeless man may have been acting under the influence of the Bunraku puppeteers.

The Combmaker employed many others, especially homeless children, in his observations.

New, taller, more glitzy buildings cast long shadows, but debris and homeless people clogged the places where runaway kids had once congregated.

Homeless on earth, gude Auld Jock had gone to a place prepared for him.

Even as the wave of horror gusted through it, the last sinistral, in the body of the man astride the homeless child, saw a terrifying thing in its mirror helm.

The homeless surged back into the tunnel and Hayward fired over their heads, breaking their ranks.

Elder Hennin, who had never liked Kelandris since the moment the child had been brought into the community as a homeless infant, decided the girl must be made into an example.

Friendship, hand in hand with admiration, tenderness and respect, built a bower of delight in my heart, late rough as an untrod wild in America, as the homeless wind or herbless sea.

Poinsinet, who was hearthless and homeless, as they say, spent the night in my room, and in the morning I gave him two cups of chocolate and some money wherewith to get a lodging.

Famished and homeless, loathed and loathing, wild, And hating good--for his immortal foe, He changed from starry shape, beauteous and mild, To a dire Snake, with man and beast unreconciled.

The dark forms of the man and woman glided slowly arm in arm along the walls with a loverlike and homeless aspect in the miserable night.