He thought of them yearning for fame.
Source: tatoeba (302527)
Yearning
//ˈjɝnɪŋ//
Synonyms for "yearning" (101 found)
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Closest matches (21)
Strong matches (30)
Related words (50)
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Translations
57 translations across 32 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- gullmi noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Ancient Greek
3 entries- πόθος noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
- ἐπιθυμία noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
- ὄρεξις noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Arabic
1 entries- شَوْق noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Armenian
1 entries- կարոտ noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Bulgarian
2 entries- жадуване noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
- копнеж noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Catalan
1 entries- anhel noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 憧憬 noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Czech
3 entries- stesk noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
- stýskání noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
- tesknění noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Danish
1 entries- længsel noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Esperanto
2 entries- dezirego noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
- sopiro noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Finnish
3 entries- ikävä noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
- kaipaus noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
- kaipuu noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
French
2 entries- aspiration noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
- envie noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Georgian
1 entries- წყურვილი noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
German
2 entries- Sehnsucht noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
- großes Verlangen noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Hebrew
1 entries- כִּיסּוּפִים noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Ingrian
2 entries- ikävä noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
- kaiho noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Italian
4 entries- anelito noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
- brama noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
- bramosia noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
- desiderio noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Japanese
1 entries- あこがれ noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Kapampangan
1 entries- dulap noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Korean
1 entries- 동경 noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Latin
1 entries- dēsīderium noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Māori
1 entries- poreirewa noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Polish
1 entries- tęsknota noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Portuguese
1 entries- saudade noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Romanian
3 entries- dor noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
- dorință arzătoare noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
- năzuință noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Russian
4 entries- скло́нность noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
- стремле́ние noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
- тоска́ noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
- тя́га noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Sanskrit
1 entries- छन्दस् noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- čežnja noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Spanish
2 entries- anhelo noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
- cuita noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Swedish
1 entries- längtan noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Tocharian B
1 entries- ñyās noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Turkish
3 entries- hasret noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
- iştiyak noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
- özlem noun (wistful or melancholy longing)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
Source: tatoeba (433674)
At the height of the Cold War, my father decided, like so many others in the forgotten corners of the world, that his yearning - his dream - required the freedom and opportunity promised by the West.
Source: tatoeba (3044891)
Mr President, it was yearning for democracy that brought down the Berlin Wall.
Source: tatoeba (3453997)
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