: having no home or permanent place of residence : unhoused
homelessnessnoun
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Army veteran Doug Cohen attends a Stand Down event designed to help veterans who are homeless or housing insecure on June 16, 2023, in Chicago.—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025 But the latest numbers also show that the gang violence is spreading to other regions of Haiti and inching close to the 1.5 million left homeless by Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake.—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 11 June 2025 Spike mutations … Full Story Around the Nation Local and state headlines on health care:
Portland spent $1.3 billion to improve the lives and safety of its homeless people.—Joseph Choi, The Hill, 11 June 2025 According to a 2023 Rand Corp. study, L.A. County homeless service workers on average earn about $40,000 to $60,000 a year, leaving little left after paying for rent and other necessities.—Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 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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