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# yearn

«yearn» in Mova's school dictionary: **to want something very much, often for a long time and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (yearn, yearns, yearned or yearnt, yearning)

### meaning for a pupil

To yearn is to want something very much, often for a long time and with a sad or aching feeling; to yearn for home or to yearn to fly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yearn/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a hero or animal longs deeply for something far away or out of reach

### examples

- The boy yearned to see the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yearn/#x1)
- She yearned for her old home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yearn/#x2)
- He yearned to fly above the trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yearn/#x3)
- Many children yearn for a pet of their own. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yearn/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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