homesick
sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.
Origin of homesick
1Other words from homesick
- homesickness, noun
Words Nearby homesick
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How to use homesick in a sentence
So, when he moved away from Southern California for work and grew homesick, tinga was the first recipe he learned how to cook.
This quick jackfruit or chicken tinga recipe is all about the sauce | Daniela Galarza | November 18, 2021 | Washington PostIn May 1965, Brian Robson was miserably homesick after working nearly a year in Melbourne, Australia, but he couldn’t afford a plane ticket home to Wales.
Man seeks pals he once persuaded to ship him around the world in a crate | Cathy Free | April 16, 2021 | Washington PostThere’s the distance he feels from his lonely, homesick-for-the-old-world mother.
Alfred Kazin’s “A Walker in the City” charts an intellectual awakening, block by block | Liza Weisstuch | March 4, 2021 | Washington PostWhen Shawn was on the Olympic circuit, she says coffee was an easy cure for her homesick blues.
Why an Olympic gold medalist and former NFL player cofounded a subscription coffee brand | Rachel King | September 29, 2020 | FortuneThe soldiers smiled back at the friendly locals—they all felt homesick and could not wait to see their families.
Ukrainian Troops Surrender to Unarmed Pro-Russian Protesters | Anna Nemtsova | April 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
I also found that Hofbräu-Festzelt is the tent of choice for homesick English-speakers.
If she is at all uncomfortable or homesick, Lamb promises to take her to the nearest airport and send her back to her mom.
Great Weekend Reads | Malcolm Jones, Lucy Scholes, Jacob Silverman, Drew Toal | September 18, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTShe was placed in a dorm with other first-year students, and for her entire first week of school she was very homesick.
Who it helps: homesick troops, many of them on their second, third, or even fourth deployment.
He never returned, but died in England on June 3, 1780, an unhappy and a homesick exile from the country which he loved.
The Eve of the Revolution | Carl BeckerWould you ever dream that four children could be homesick in such a beautiful house as Mr. Cordyce's?
The Box-Car Children | Gertrude Chandler WarnerThe letters that found their way across the sea were not homesick in these days, and Ikey's mother ceased to worry about him.
The Story of the Big Front Door | Mary Finley LeonardMy heart reaches out in homesick yearning for the notes of our dear Northern songsters.
Gardens of the Caribbees, v. 1/2 | Ida May Hill StarrKit could only think of a lost, homesick dog begging for the scent of the trail to his own kennel.
The Treasure Trail | Marah Ellis Ryan
British Dictionary definitions for homesick
/ (ˈhəʊmˌsɪk) /
depressed or melancholy at being away from home and family
Derived forms of homesick
- homesickness, noun
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