: longing for home and family while absent from them
homesickness noun
Examples of homesick in a Sentence
He was homesick when he went to college. She was homesick for her mother's cooking.
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The dining room features personal correspondence from Kahlo’s travels, including homesick dispatches and wry quips about the lack of spice in American food. —
Theo Lee, Time, 12 Mar. 2026 Some students and athletes get a little homesick during their first year of college, but that hasn’t been the case for Marist graduate Nathen Toth at MIT. —Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2026 By using genuine Filipino ingredients, Libago's team brings a taste of the Philippines to their homesick community. —Natalie Hoy, Southern Living, 9 Feb. 2026 Tired and homesick, I’d crisscrossed time zones, endured all kinds of temperature and weather, fled from a hurricane in North Carolina, and had met hundreds and hundreds of people along the way. —Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for homesick
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Theo Lee, Time, 12 Mar. 2026 Some students and athletes get a little homesick during their first year of college, but that hasn’t been the case for Marist graduate Nathen Toth at MIT. —Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2026 By using genuine Filipino ingredients, Libago's team brings a taste of the Philippines to their homesick community. —Natalie Hoy, Southern Living, 9 Feb. 2026 Tired and homesick, I’d crisscrossed time zones, endured all kinds of temperature and weather, fled from a hurricane in North Carolina, and had met hundreds and hundreds of people along the way. —Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for homesick
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“Homesick.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/dictionary/homesick. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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homesick
adjective
home·sick ˈhōm-ˌsik 
: longing for home and family while away from them
homesickness noun
Medical Definition
homesick
adjective
home·sick ˈhōm-ˌsik
: longing for home and family while absent from them
homesickness noun
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