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Definition: Homesick |
HomesickAdjective1. Unhappy at being away and longing for familiar things or persons. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "homesick" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of being homesick, foretells you will lose fortunate opportunities to enjoy travels of interest and pleasant visits. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Synonym: HomesickSynonym: nostalgic (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Regret | Adjective: regretting; Verb: regretful; homesick. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Homesick |
| Specialty definitions using "homesick": trunky. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I knew you long before you ever became a mathematical god, I knew you when you were pimple faced and homesick and didn't know what side of the bed to piss on (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Matt Damon; Ben Affleck) A little homesick, perhaps (K-PAX; writing credit: Charles Leavitt) | |
Lyrics | When you're homesick and need a change (Somewhere Out There; performing artist: Our Lady Peace) Oh never mind I'm just a little homesick (Ain't No Place Like Home; performing artist: Prince) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Homesick (1928) | |
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| "Homesick" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.97% of the time. "Homesick" is used about 148 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.97% | 145 | 26,217 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.35% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.68% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 148 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "homesick": be homesick ♦ be homesick for one's country. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "homesick"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i përmalluar për vendlindje, i përmalluar për shtëpi. (various references) | |
Arabic | مشوق للعودة إلى الوطن, حنين للوطن والأسرة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | обзет от носталгия. (various references) | |
Chinese | 想家 , 思乡病. (various references) | |
Czech | nostalgický (nostalgic, reminiscent). (various references) | |
Farsi | دلتنگ (Lone, Nostalgic, Sad), درفراق میهن , بیماروطن . (various references) | |
Finnish | ikävöidä kotiin (be homesick). (various references) | |
French | nostalgique. (various references) | |
German | heimwehkrank. (various references) | |
Greek | νοσταλγόσ (nostalgic). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתגעגע הביתה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hazavágyódó. (various references) | |
Indonesian | rindu (hanker, longing, nostalgic). (various references) | |
Italian | nostalgico (melancholy, nostalgic), che soffre di nostalgia, ammalato di nostalgia. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ホーミング魚雷 (family doctor, family physician, get home, goal reached, HA, hall, Hands up!, HI, hold, Hold up!, holding, hole, hole in one, hole out, Holmes, home, home automation, home banking, home bar, home comedy, home cooking, home drama, home economics, home electronics, home freezing, home game, home ground, home helper, home improvement, home page, home plate, home reservation, home run, home run derby, home security system, home shopping, home team, home terminal, home trade, home-directory, homemade, homemaker, homeroom, homespun, homestay, homestretch, homework, homing torpedo, horn, house dress, party, plain dress for everyday wear, platform, service that goes to clients' homes to give beauty treatments, soap opera, stealing home in baseball, wheel, wheel cap, whip, whipped cream, whistle). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ホームシック . (various references) | |
Korean | 향수병 (homesickness). (various references) | |
Manx | foddeeagh (longing, nostalgic). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | omesickhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | saudoso (melancholy, wishful, wistful), nostlgico, com saudades de casa. (various references) | |
Russian | тоскующий по дому. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nostalgičan za domom, čežnja za domom, žudeti za kućom. (various references) | |
Spanish | nostálgico (nostalgic). (various references) | |
Swedish | hemsjuk (nostalgic). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งคิดถึงบ้าน (nostalgic). (various references) | |
Turkish | vatan hasreti çeken, evini veya vatanını özleyen. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhớ quê hương, nhớ nhà (nostalgic). (various references) | |
Welsh | hiraethus (longing). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "homesick": homesickness, homesicknesses. (additional references) | |
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"Homesick" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hofmusik, Holmavik, Honsik, Horelick, Tomasik. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "homesick" (pronounced hō"msi'k) |
| 3 | -s i' k | seasick. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-k-m-o-s" | |
-1 letter: echoism. | |
-2 letters: chemos, chimes, chokes, hoicks, miches, schmoe. | |
-3 letters: chemo, chime, choke, chose, cokes, comes, cosie, echos, hecks, hemic, hicks, hikes, hocks, hoick, hoise, hokes, homes, mesic, miche, micks, mikes, mocks, mokes, ohmic, okehs, osmic, schmo, sheik, shock, sicko, skimo, smock, smoke. | |
-4 letters: chis, coke, come, cosh, echo, emic, heck, hems, hick, hies, hike. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-k-m-o-s" | |
+4 letters: homesickness, mackintoshes. | |
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