homesickness
IPA/ˈhəʊmsɪknəs/
KK[hˈomsˌɪknəs]IPA/ˈhəʊmsɪknəs/
homesickness — noun
1. a sad, lonely emotion that someone gets when they are far from where they live a
1.名詞B1
釋義
a sad, lonely emotion that someone gets when they are far from where they live and long to be back with their family and familiar things
例句
Ife cried with homesickness on her first night at boarding school.
abstract noun naming an emotion as subject of a feeling
After three months in Berlin, Mauricio felt a deep homesickness for his mother's cooking.
collocation: homesickness for [something from home]
The young soldiers fought off homesickness by writing long letters home each week.
Homesickness kept Devika awake for the first few weeks of college.
A warm bowl of noodle soup eased Min's homesickness on the cold winter evening.
用法筆記
Uncountable: say 'a feeling of homesickness' or 'deep homesickness', never 'a homesickness' or 'homesicknesses'.
常見錯誤
❌I had a homesickness.
✅I felt homesick.' / 'I had a wave of homesickness.
💡the noun is uncountable, so it takes no plural and usually no 'a' on its own.