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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homesickness/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homesickness/#x1)
- Homesickness is normal when you go somewhere new. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homesickness/#x2)
- Writing letters helped her homesickness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homesickness/#x3)
- He felt a wave of homesickness when he heard his mum's voice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homesickness/#x4)
- Keeping busy can ease homesickness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homesickness/#x5)
- The new student's homesickness faded after a week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homesickness/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/22-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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