nostalgianoun [ U ]
uk/nɒsˈtæl.dʒə/us/nɑːˈstæl.dʒə/C2 a feeling of pleasure and also slight sadness when you think about things that happened in the past:
Some people feel nostalgia for their schooldays.
Hearing that song again filled him with nostalgia.
a wave (= sudden strong feeling) of nostalgia
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Memory and memories
- at/in the back of your mind idiom
- back
- clear
- corporate memory
- dim
- déjà vu
- eidetic
- flash
- flash back
- from memory idiom
- go
- live
- long memory
- nostalgic
- off the top of your head idiom
- photographic memory
- recollection
- remembrance
- rote
- within your memory idiom
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