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say it: HOHM-luhs
homeless is a noun and adjective meaning "someone unfortunate without housing". It is pronounced /ˈhoʊmləs/ — HOHM-luhs. It carries 4 recorded senses.
someone unfortunate without housing
“a homeless was found murdered in Central Park”
poor people who unfortunately do not have a home to live in
“the homeless became a problem in the large cities”
physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security
“made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for homeless come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.