单词 | homesick |
释义 | homesick (once / 1801 pages) adj When you're away from home and you miss it terribly, you're homesick. Most kids get homesick when they first go to summer camp. Everyone feels homesick sometimes, but it's probably most common for kids to get homesick when they're on their first sleepover or visiting their grandparents, or even when they leave for college as freshmen. There is a wistful yearning included in the idea of being homesick — a longing to be back where you started. Homesickness came first, from the German heimweh, "home woe" or "home pain." WORD FAMILYhomesick: homesicker, homesickest, homesickly, homesickness USAGE EXAMPLES“I like the old statement ‘Heaven is my home, but I’m not homesick.’ New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) One of scurvy’s characteristics was a type of homesick nostalgia. Slate(Dec 08, 2016) On Thanksgiving Day, wandering around Iran, I became rather dramatically homesick, and desperate to hear my parents’ voices. New York Times(Nov 28, 2016) adj longing to return home Syn desirous, wishful having or expressing desire for something |
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