homeless
adjetivosubstantivocorrente nos diálogos
- Estados Unidos//ˈhoʊmlɪs//
- Estados Unidos//ˈhoʊmləs//
Lacking a permanent place of residence.
adjetivo
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Lacking a permanent place of residence.
Whenever I pass the park, I see the homeless people sleeping on the benches.
You know what you never see? A really good-looking homeless couple.
The massive arches of the retaining walls have become tent city for the many homeless people in the area.
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Containing no place that might be called home.
But I should turn mine ears and hear The moanings of the homeless sea, The sound of streams that swift or slow Draw down Æonian hills, and sow The dust of continents to be; […]
Etimologia
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos Proto-Germanic *haimaz Proto-West Germanic *haim Old English hām Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Old English hāmlēas Middle English *homles English homeless From Middle English *homles, *hamles, from Old English hāmlēas (“homeless”), equivalent to home + -less. Cognate with Dutch heemloos, Danish hjemløs (“homeless”), Swedish hemlös (“homeless”). Compare also German heimatlos (“homeless”), Icelandic heimilislaus (“homeless”), West Frisian dakleas (“homeless”, literally “having no roof, roofless”).
substantivo
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A person who is homeless.
Oszlár Kálmán András, Yoga in the Bed: Tantric Continence & Spiritual Intimacy […] the jobseekers and homelesses or even the future prime minister, all of us are involved in formation of the new world.
[…] homelesses' due process rights and infringed upon the homelesses' fundamental right to travel […]
Formas
- plural
- homelesses
homeless · Lacking a permanent place of residence.
homemade · Made at home.homer · A home run.Homer · An ancient Greek epic poet of the 8th century BCE, who is…