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HOMELESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Poor people who unfortunately do not have a home to live in
Example:
the homeless became a problem in the large cities
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("homeless" is a kind of...):
poor; poor people (people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group))
Meronyms (members of "homeless"):
homeless; homeless person (someone unfortunate without housing)
Derivation:
homeless (physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone unfortunate without housing
Example:
a homeless was found murdered in Central Park
Synonyms:
homeless; homeless person
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("homeless" is a kind of...):
unfortunate; unfortunate person (a person who suffers misfortune)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "homeless"):
bag lady (a homeless woman who carries all her possessions with her in shopping bags)
Holonyms ("homeless" is a member of...):
homeless (poor people who unfortunately do not have a home to live in)
Derivation:
homeless (physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security
Example:
made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another
Synonyms:
dispossessed; homeless; roofless
Classified under:
Similar:
unfortunate (not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune)
Derivation:
homeless (poor people who unfortunately do not have a home to live in)
homeless (someone unfortunate without housing)
homelessness (the state or condition of having no home (especially the state of living in the streets))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Without nationality or citizenship
Example:
stateless persons
Synonyms:
homeless; stateless
Classified under:
Similar:
unsettled (not settled or established)
