homesickness

«homesickness» in Mova's school dictionary: the sad feeling of missing your home and family when you… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (homesickness; no plural)

meaning for a pupil

Homesickness is the sad feeling of missing your home and family when you are away from them. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in stories, school camps and boarding school, and when people move to a new country. Phrases: «suffer from homesickness», «a wave of homesickness». It tells the reader someone feels lonely and misses home.

examples

• On the first night at camp, I felt homesickness. tree →
• Homesickness is normal when you go somewhere new. tree →
• Writing letters helped her homesickness. tree →
• He felt a wave of homesickness when he heard his mum's voice. tree →
• Keeping busy can ease homesickness. tree →
• The new student's homesickness faded after a week. tree →

note

Uncountable. Adjective: homesick (I feel homesick). Not an illness of the body, though it can make you feel unwell.

In the corpora

• Homesickness is the sad ache for the home and people you left; it is common after a move and usually fades over months.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «homesickness» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.