homeless

Definition

  • adjective: having no place to live
  • adjective: having no home or permanent place of residence
  • synonyms: outcast, harborless, houseless

Examples

  • We volunteer at the 'homeless' shelter. [=a building where homeless people can sleep and get food]

  • a shelter for 'the homeless'

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Is that a funeral? Yeah. Have you ever known anybody who died? No. Have you? No. But I did see this homeless woman who froze to death once... just laying there on the sidewalk. She looked really sad. I got that homeless woman (..)
    1999 American Beauty