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# homesick

«homesick» in Mova's school dictionary: **Sad and missing your home and family when you are away…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (homesick; more homesick)

### meaning for a pupil

Sad and missing your home and family when you are away from them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homesick/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In lessons about feelings, being homesick is normal on a school camp, a sleepover or after moving to a new country. It helps to keep busy, talk to a teacher or friend, and remember you will go home soon. In stories, characters feel homesick on long journeys. Phrases: «feel homesick», «get homesick».

### examples

- I felt homesick on the first night of camp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homesick/#x1)
- Lots of children get homesick at sleepovers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homesick/#x2)
- Writing a letter home helped her feel less homesick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homesick/#x3)
- The new boy from Ireland was homesick at first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homesick/#x4)
- Being homesick means you love your home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homesick/#x5)
- It's okay to tell a teacher if you feel homesick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homesick/#x6)
- At last she discovered that she was homesick, so she went to Mother Holle and said: [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homesick/#x7)

### note

One word. Noun: homesickness. It is a feeling, not an illness; it usually passes in a few days.

### In the corpora

- [I think about it—all the time!» — he is homesick.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop/22/)
- [At midnight at a sleepover, Chloe gets homesick and wants to go home.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «homesick» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homesick/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.