homelessadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈhəʊmləs/, U.S.

/ˈhoʊmləs/

Forms: see home n.¹ and adj. and -less suffix.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: home n.¹, -less suffix.

Etymology: < home n.¹ + -less suffix.Much earlier currency of sense A. 2 (apparently as first element of a compound with shaw n.¹) is perhaps shown by the following example from Anglo-Saxon charter bounds. However, the topographical feature referred to by the boundary marker remains unidentified, and the word could alternatively be interpreted as showing the genitive of an otherwise unattested Old English compound hāmlēah , lit. ‘home meadow’ ( < home n.¹ + lea n.¹):lOE Bounds (Sawyer 412) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1887) II. 357 Of secges geate andlang paðes to hamleas sceagan.

A. adj.

1. Having no home or permanent abode; spec. (of a person) having no home, shelter, or place of refuge owing to poverty or destitution; living on the streets. Cf. houseless adj. 1.Apparently unattested between the Old English period and the 17th cent.In quot. ?1615 either appositive or adverbial.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [adjective] > homeless

homelessOE

harbourlessc1175

innlessa1325

houseless1357

placelessa1387

on the pavéc1450

unharbouredc1450

roomless1548

dishousedc1595

dislodged1602

unhouseda1616

unlodged1634

bedless1707

on the pavement1743

roofless1797

on (also upon) the street(s)1832

unhomed1839

dishomed1880

dwellingless1882

homesteadless1885

OE Riddle 39 9 Ne bið hio næfre niht þær oþre, ac hio sceal wideferh wreccan laste hamleas hweorfan.

1613 J. Taylor Eighth Wonder of World sig. A8 'Twere best he iog'd from his commanding Mayne: And with his troupes of homelesse, rouing slaues: Go hide him in the earths imprison'd Caues.

?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) i. 94 His daughter 'tis, who holds this homeless-driuen [sc. Odysseus], Still mourning with her.

1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge ii. 20 If you ask about it [sc. the world] the question that is wont to be askt all the homeless Crew, Whence comes it?

1729 S. Madden Themistocles i. i. 2 An homeless, hopeless, friendless Foe.

1793 W. Cowper Tale 28 Or was the merchant charged to bring The homeless birds a nest?

1830 Monthly Repos. June 26 Imagine yourselves the rudely dressed and ungainly boy wending his way, homeless, and penniless, through the streets of Philadelphia.

1884 T. S. Dowse Brain & Nerves vi. 122 If the thousands of people who waste their money in galvanic appliances were to spend it upon the destitute and homeless poor of London, it would be far better for their nerves and their consciences.

1939 D. Thomas Let. July (1987) 392 I must have money for my debts or have everything taken away from me and be quite homeless.

1969 Hindu (Madras) 3 Aug. 6/4 The area worst hit by the recent floods in the Brahmaputra Valley is the Sibsagar district where about two lakhs of people have been affected, with thousands rendered homeless.

2008 C. Doctorow Little Brother xix. 304 The big plaza teemed with commuters who neatly sidestepped the homeless people begging there.

2. Of a place or region: offering no home or shelter; inhospitable; (also) devoid of houses. Cf. houseless adj. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adjective] > types of land or country

merryOE

greatc1325

homeless1725

less developed1857

Bongo Bongo1932

1725 T. Sheridan tr. Sophocles Philoctetes iii. 20 But let us go, my Son, to visit now My homeless Home.

1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. vi. 148 Going forth into a new and homeless world.

1812 J. Wilson Isle of Palms ii. 455 Thus left by herself on the homeless sea.

1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake II. xxii. 389 Between grey reed-ronds and green alder-beds, And the brown horror of the homeless fen, A dirge of monks and wail of women rose In vain to Heaven.

1923 R. F. Horton Mystical Quest Christ iii. xxiv. 255 The vast universe seems so homeless, so comfortless; its spaces of darkness so intraversible.

1999 S. E. Ambrose Comrades iii. 38 How tough this duty was in the dry, waterless, homeless desert can be best understood by considering the deserters.

B. n.

With plural agreement. Chiefly with the. Homeless people as a class.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [noun] > homeless > collectively

houselessc1400

homeless1809

Legion of the lost1870

unhoused1886

1809 A. Wilson Foresters in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) ii. 128 Blest Hospitality..for the homeless and the exiled lives, And smiles the sweeter still the more she gives.

1882 Good Words Apr. 263 One may be specially ‘called’ to shelter the homeless.

1911 World To-day July 857 (heading) Living with the homeless.

1943 E. Muir Coll. Poems (1960) 95 We saw the homeless waiting in the street Year after year.

1993 Canad. Living Mar. 88/2 Representatives of three agencies that run drop-in centres and services for the homeless met with a group of policemen to help them understand homeless people and their problems.

2010 Big Issue 4 Jan. 16/1 Almost one in four of London's homeless are ex-Forces.

Compounds

General attributive, with the sense ‘for the homeless’, ‘of or concerned with the homeless’, as homeless charity, homeless shelter, etc.

ΚΠ

1915 Janesville (Wisconsin) Daily Gaz. 22 Dec. 12/3 (heading) The homeless problem.

1931 Chester (Pa.) Times 18 Mar. 2/5 Approximately 10 per cent. of the 500 World War veterans at the Homeless Shelter, Eighteenth and Hamilton streets, had left upon receiving their checks.

1985 Times 5 June 2/1 Mr. Chris Smith, of the homeless charity Char, said the return to discretion represented a return to the poor box.

1992 Tucson (Arizona) Weekly 5 Aug. 4/1 City officials and homeless advocates agree with the employees that it's time to move the food line.

1996 Big Issue 2 Dec. 41/1 Stephen..has five years' experience of working as outreach manager for homeless organisation St Mungo's.

2000 A. Sayle Barcelona Plates 166 Today there'd been a nervy Dutch girl from a homeless hostel in Camden Town.

2009 Metro 10 Feb. (London ed.) 20/1 Jenny..was volunteering at a homeless shelter in Leeds.

Derivatives

ˈhomelessly adv. in a homeless manner.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [adverb] > homelessly

homelessly1829

1829 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 26 286 Who o'er this scene of clay Once wandered homelessly.

1898 H. C. Greene Plains & Uplands Old France 130 Disused chairs were piled up homelessly.

1995 Hollywood Reporter (Nexis) 19 June The title character..roams homelessly in Central Park.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	homeless
释义	homelessadj.n. Brit. /ˈhəʊmləs/, U.S. /ˈhoʊmləs/ Forms: see home n.¹ and adj. and -less suffix. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: home n.¹, -less suffix. Etymology: < home n.¹ + -less suffix.Much earlier currency of sense A. 2 (apparently as first element of a compound with shaw n.¹) is perhaps shown by the following example from Anglo-Saxon charter bounds. However, the topographical feature referred to by the boundary marker remains unidentified, and the word could alternatively be interpreted as showing the genitive of an otherwise unattested Old English compound hāmlēah , lit. ‘home meadow’ ( < home n.¹ + lea n.¹):lOE Bounds (Sawyer 412) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1887) II. 357 Of secges geate andlang paðes to hamleas sceagan. A. adj. 1. Having no home or permanent abode; spec. (of a person) having no home, shelter, or place of refuge owing to poverty or destitution; living on the streets. Cf. houseless adj. 1.Apparently unattested between the Old English period and the 17th cent.In quot. ?1615 either appositive or adverbial. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [adjective] > homeless homelessOE harbourlessc1175 innlessa1325 houseless1357 placelessa1387 on the pavéc1450 unharbouredc1450 roomless1548 dishousedc1595 dislodged1602 unhouseda1616 unlodged1634 bedless1707 on the pavement1743 roofless1797 on (also upon) the street(s)1832 unhomed1839 dishomed1880 dwellingless1882 homesteadless1885 OE Riddle 39 9 Ne bið hio næfre niht þær oþre, ac hio sceal wideferh wreccan laste hamleas hweorfan. 1613 J. Taylor Eighth Wonder of World sig. A8 'Twere best he iog'd from his commanding Mayne: And with his troupes of homelesse, rouing slaues: Go hide him in the earths imprison'd Caues. ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) i. 94 His daughter 'tis, who holds this homeless-driuen [sc. Odysseus], Still mourning with her. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge ii. 20 If you ask about it [sc. the world] the question that is wont to be askt all the homeless Crew, Whence comes it? 1729 S. Madden Themistocles i. i. 2 An homeless, hopeless, friendless Foe. 1793 W. Cowper Tale 28 Or was the merchant charged to bring The homeless birds a nest? 1830 Monthly Repos. June 26 Imagine yourselves the rudely dressed and ungainly boy wending his way, homeless, and penniless, through the streets of Philadelphia. 1884 T. S. Dowse Brain & Nerves vi. 122 If the thousands of people who waste their money in galvanic appliances were to spend it upon the destitute and homeless poor of London, it would be far better for their nerves and their consciences. 1939 D. Thomas Let. July (1987) 392 I must have money for my debts or have everything taken away from me and be quite homeless. 1969 Hindu (Madras) 3 Aug. 6/4 The area worst hit by the recent floods in the Brahmaputra Valley is the Sibsagar district where about two lakhs of people have been affected, with thousands rendered homeless. 2008 C. Doctorow Little Brother xix. 304 The big plaza teemed with commuters who neatly sidestepped the homeless people begging there. 2. Of a place or region: offering no home or shelter; inhospitable; (also) devoid of houses. Cf. houseless adj. 2b. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adjective] > types of land or country merryOE greatc1325 homeless1725 less developed1857 Bongo Bongo1932 1725 T. Sheridan tr. Sophocles Philoctetes iii. 20 But let us go, my Son, to visit now My homeless Home. 1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. vi. 148 Going forth into a new and homeless world. 1812 J. Wilson Isle of Palms ii. 455 Thus left by herself on the homeless sea. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake II. xxii. 389 Between grey reed-ronds and green alder-beds, And the brown horror of the homeless fen, A dirge of monks and wail of women rose In vain to Heaven. 1923 R. F. Horton Mystical Quest Christ iii. xxiv. 255 The vast universe seems so homeless, so comfortless; its spaces of darkness so intraversible. 1999 S. E. Ambrose Comrades iii. 38 How tough this duty was in the dry, waterless, homeless desert can be best understood by considering the deserters. B. n. With plural agreement. Chiefly with the. Homeless people as a class. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [noun] > homeless > collectively houselessc1400 homeless1809 Legion of the lost1870 unhoused1886 1809 A. Wilson Foresters in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) ii. 128 Blest Hospitality..for the homeless and the exiled lives, And smiles the sweeter still the more she gives. 1882 Good Words Apr. 263 One may be specially ‘called’ to shelter the homeless. 1911 World To-day July 857 (heading) Living with the homeless. 1943 E. Muir Coll. Poems (1960) 95 We saw the homeless waiting in the street Year after year. 1993 Canad. Living Mar. 88/2 Representatives of three agencies that run drop-in centres and services for the homeless met with a group of policemen to help them understand homeless people and their problems. 2010 Big Issue 4 Jan. 16/1 Almost one in four of London's homeless are ex-Forces. Compounds General attributive, with the sense ‘for the homeless’, ‘of or concerned with the homeless’, as homeless charity, homeless shelter, etc. ΚΠ 1915 Janesville (Wisconsin) Daily Gaz. 22 Dec. 12/3 (heading) The homeless problem. 1931 Chester (Pa.) Times 18 Mar. 2/5 Approximately 10 per cent. of the 500 World War veterans at the Homeless Shelter, Eighteenth and Hamilton streets, had left upon receiving their checks. 1985 Times 5 June 2/1 Mr. Chris Smith, of the homeless charity Char, said the return to discretion represented a return to the poor box. 1992 Tucson (Arizona) Weekly 5 Aug. 4/1 City officials and homeless advocates agree with the employees that it's time to move the food line. 1996 Big Issue 2 Dec. 41/1 Stephen..has five years' experience of working as outreach manager for homeless organisation St Mungo's. 2000 A. Sayle Barcelona Plates 166 Today there'd been a nervy Dutch girl from a homeless hostel in Camden Town. 2009 Metro 10 Feb. (London ed.) 20/1 Jenny..was volunteering at a homeless shelter in Leeds. Derivatives ˈhomelessly adv. in a homeless manner. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [adverb] > homelessly homelessly1829 1829 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 26 286 Who o'er this scene of clay Once wandered homelessly. 1898 H. C. Greene Plains & Uplands Old France 130 Disused chairs were piled up homelessly. 1995 Hollywood Reporter (Nexis) 19 June The title character..roams homelessly in Central Park. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.OE
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