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houseless

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈhaʊsləs/Sorted eehlosssuStarts with HEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. Lacking a house, or, by extension, a residence or place of refuge in general; thus, having no home.

Word origin

From Middle English housles, from Old English *hūslēas, from Proto-West Germanic *hūslaus, from Proto-Germanic *hūsalausaz, equivalent to house + -less. Cognate with West Frisian húsleas (“houseless”), Dutch huisloos (“houseless”), German hauslos (“houseless”), Danish husløs (“houseless”), Swedish huslös (“houseless”), Icelandic húslaus (“houseless”).

Used in a sentence

  • Some advocates for unhoused people have insisted that they be called houseless rather than homeless, but even within the community of advocates there is not universal agreement on this terminological prescription.
  • He said that he was houseless but not homeless because he went to school in that community, was registered to vote there, and had been living in the teepee for seventeen years. He said that teepee was his home.
  • No, I'm not… homeless. I'm just…houseless. Not the same thing, right?

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