Home·less, a.  Destitute of a home.
  -- Home*less*ness, n.
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  home·less, n. pl. Those people who have no permanent residence, especially those who live outdoors due to poverty; usually used in the definite phrase the homeless.
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  homeless
       adj 1: without nationality or citizenship; "stateless persons"
              [syn: stateless]
       2: physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security;
          "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from
          one country to another"- James Stern [syn: dispossessed,
           roofless]
       n 1: someone with no housing; "the homeless became a problem in
            the large cities" [syn: homeless person]
       2: people who are homeless; "the homeless lived on the city
          streets"