street person

1. 1.

   someone who sleeps in any convenient place

   Synonymsdosser

   Broadertramp

Questions about street person

What does street person mean?

street person means "someone who sleeps in any convenient place".

What is another word for street person?

Close synonyms include dosser. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is street person a common word?

street person is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.