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homesick

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1. homesick - Adjective

2. homesick - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Pining for home; in a nostalgic condition.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Examples

Homesickness is nothing ... Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. John Cheever

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. Loren Eiseley

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Anne Tyler

I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven. Louisa May Alcott

It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there. Don DeLillo

I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick. Magnus Carlsen

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