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houseless

[ hous-lis ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

without a house or houses:
My friend lived on the other side of the houseless plot of land.
being unhoused or lacking permanent housing; homeless:
The church is holding a winter survival equipment drive to provide houseless folks with heavy duty winter coats, blankets, and sleeping bags.

First recorded in 1350–1400; house + -less ( def )

Like that unknown mother, she too had become a houseless wanderer, seeking for a home and shelter from a hard unfeeling world.

Let him but acknowledge you, Norman, and he may turn me out upon the world houseless and a beggar, and I will bless him for it!

But to tamper with their dialect, or to take it from them, would be to leave them houseless and exposed in their daily business.

Yet one can hardly associate sparrows with marshes, for they seem out of place in houseless, treeless, half-submerged stretches.

He has ruined my poor old friend; he will soon leave him houseless, and he threatens to leave him almost friendless too.

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