Homesickness
['hom,sɪknɪs]
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Nostalgia.
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Examples
- When Pasteur at the age of fifteen was in Paris, overcome with homesickness, he had exclaimed, If I could only get a whiff of the old tannery yard, I feel I should be cured. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Homesickness was abroad in the ship--it was epidemic. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In this one little was said of the hardships endured, the dangers faced, or the homesickness conquered. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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