: having no home or permanent place of residence : unhoused
homelessnessnoun
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But the problem with that method, Beach said, is that once families are residing in a hotel, they can no longer be verified as homeless by Cincinnati Behavioral and can’t get on the wait list for shelter.—Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 Oct. 2025 Others were harder to discern, like a boy being swept away by a tornado, or homeless men being inserted into people’s homes.—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 20 Oct. 2025 Now, the number of homeless people on the streets in the Phoenix area is larger than ever.—Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 20 Oct. 2025 Even so, the city has a high cost of housing – over $3,600 for the median household – and has consistently been home to a small homeless population, which city leaders have attributed both to those who work and study in the city and those who come to the city from elsewhere.—Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 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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