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homesick

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home·sick  (hmsk)
adj.
Acutely longing for one's family or home.

homesickness n.

homesick
Adjective
depressed by being away from home and family
homesickness n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.homesick - longing to return home
desirous, wishful - having or expressing desire for something; "desirous of high office"; "desirous of finding a quick solution to the problem"
Translations
homesick [ˈhəumsɪk] adj to be homesick → tener morriña or nostalgia
homesick [ˈhəumsɪk] home adj to be homesick → avoir le mal du pays (= missing one's family); s'ennuyer de sa famille
homesick [ˈhəumsɪk] home adjheimwehkrank;
to be homesick → Heimweh haben
homesick [ˈhəumsɪk] adj to be homesick → avere la nostalgia


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She could not at first tell why she felt sad, but she became conscious at last of great longing to go home; then she knew she was homesick, although she was a thousand times better off with Mother Holle than with her mother and sister.
We children who were used to the free range of woods and fields were homesick for the country in our narrow city yard, and I associate with this longing the 'Farmer's Boy of Bloomfield,' which my father got for me.
I'm homesick from ear-socket to crupper, and from crupper to hock-joint; but it ain't any use, I've got to stay here, till the old man drops the rag and give the word--yes, SIR, right here in this ------country I've got to linger till the old man says COME
 
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