Homesickness is a longing to go back to where you are from.
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Homesickness
Synonyms for "homesickness" (8 found)
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Translations
71 translations across 46 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- اِشْتِيَاق noun (missing one's home or family)
- حَنِين noun (missing one's home or family)
Belarusian
1 entries- настальгі́я noun (missing one's home or family)
Bulgarian
1 entries- носта́лгия noun (missing one's home or family)
Catalan
2 entries- enyorança noun (missing one's home or family)
- nostàlgia noun (missing one's home or family)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 思鄉 /思乡 noun (missing one's home or family)
- 想家 noun (missing one's home or family)
- 懷鄉 /怀乡 noun (missing one's home or family)
- 鄉愁 /乡愁 noun (missing one's home or family)
Czech
2 entries- nostalgie noun (missing one's home or family)
- stesk po domově noun (missing one's home or family)
Danish
2 entries- hjemlængsel noun (missing one's home or family)
- hjemve noun (missing one's home or family)
Dutch
1 entries- heimwee noun (missing one's home or family)
Esperanto
2 entries- hejmveo noun (missing one's home or family)
- nostalgio noun (missing one's home or family)
Finnish
1 entries- koti-ikävä noun (missing one's home or family)
French
2 entries- mal du pays noun (missing one's home or family)
- nostalgie noun (missing one's home or family)
Galician
1 entries- morriña noun (missing one's home or family)
Georgian
1 entries- ნოსტალგია noun (missing one's home or family)
German
3 entries- Heimweh noun (missing one's home or family)
- Häiwee noun (missing one's home or family)
- Nostalgie noun (missing one's home or family)
Greek
1 entries- νοσταλγία noun (missing one's home or family)
Hindi
1 entries- ग़ुरबत noun (missing one's home or family)
Hungarian
1 entries- honvágy noun (missing one's home or family)
Icelandic
1 entries- heimþrá noun (missing one's home or family)
Irish
1 entries- cumha (i ndiaidh an bhaile) noun (missing one's home or family)
Italian
1 entries- nostalgia noun (missing one's home or family)
Japanese
3 entries- 望郷 noun (missing one's home or family)
- 郷愁 noun (missing one's home or family)
- 里心 noun (missing one's home or family)
Korean
3 entries- 향수 noun (missing one's home or family)
- 향수병 noun (missing one's home or family)
- 회향병 noun (missing one's home or family)
Latvian
1 entries- nostaļģija noun (missing one's home or family)
Lithuanian
1 entries- nostalgija noun (missing one's home or family)
Low German
1 entries- Heemweh noun (missing one's home or family)
Macedonian
1 entries- носталгија noun (missing one's home or family)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- hjemlengsel noun (missing one's home or family)
Old English
1 entries- landādl noun (missing one's home or family)
Persian
1 entries- غربت noun (missing one's home or family)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Bang noun (missing one's home or family)
Polish
1 entries- nostalgia noun (missing one's home or family)
Portuguese
1 entries- saudade noun (missing one's home or family)
Romanian
2 entries- dor de casă noun (missing one's home or family)
- dor de țară noun (missing one's home or family)
Russian
3 entries- ностальги́я noun (missing one's home or family)
- тоска́ noun (missing one's home or family)
- тоска́ по ро́дине noun (missing one's home or family)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- cianalas noun (missing one's home or family)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- nostàlgija noun (missing one's home or family)
- носта̀лгија noun (missing one's home or family)
Slovak
1 entries- nostalgia noun (missing one's home or family)
Slovene
1 entries- nostalgija noun (missing one's home or family)
Spanish
3 entries- añoranza noun (missing one's home or family)
- morriña noun (missing one's home or family)
- nostalgia noun (missing one's home or family)
Swedish
2 entries- hemlängtan noun (missing one's home or family)
- nostalgi noun (missing one's home or family)
Tagalog
2 entries- kahidlawan noun (missing one's home or family)
- pagkahidlaw noun (missing one's home or family)
Thai
1 entries- อาการคิดถึงบ้าน noun (missing one's home or family)
Turkish
2 entries- gurbet noun (missing one's home or family)
- yadlık noun (missing one's home or family)
Ukrainian
2 entries- ностальгі́я noun (missing one's home or family)
- ту́га за до́мом noun (missing one's home or family)
Welsh
1 entries- hiraeth noun (missing one's home or family)
Yiddish
1 entries- בענקעדיג noun (missing one's home or family)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
Philosophy is actually homesickness: the drive to be at home everywhere.
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She cried out of homesickness.
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So this is what homesickness feels like.
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