homesick

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If you get homesick the Sony theater in Potsdamer Platz runs american movies in english.

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(often with for) Missing one's home and family very much when away; nostalgic.

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adjective

(often with for) Missing one's home and family very much when away; nostalgic.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for homesick.

adjective

(often with for) Missing one's home and family very much when away; nostalgic.

Example sentences

If you get homesick the Sony theater in Potsdamer Platz runs american movies in english.

One of my friends spent two years in Japan and claims that she was more homesick upon returning home (USA) than she ever was in Japan.

I've travelled quite a bit, and I don't generally feel homesick, specifically.

Similarly, this article made me homesick for London.

If it would just for them I would never be homesick.

I identified with some of it, and I'm rarely homesick.

If anything, I'm 'homesick' for multiple homes: I am constantly missing Athens, Kiev, Tokyo, Berlin...

>One of my friends spent two years in Japan and claims that she was more homesick upon returning home (USA) than she ever was in Japan.

Sometimes they also homesick as a reaction to content in public schools, but in many places in the US they've been fairly successful in dominating school authorities at the local and even state level and directing the curriculum.

You don't feel unsafe, but you don't quite fit in, you feel homesick, you don't mesh well with your coworkers, and you feel a constant background radiation of insecurity because you aren't used to the legal system, the social support system, etc.