: 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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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.
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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
Both were homesick for Bloomington and wondered if Cignetti would welcome them back.
—Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2026
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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
Both were homesick for Bloomington and wondered if Cignetti would welcome them back.
—Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for homesick
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“Homesick.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homesick. Accessed 21 Mar. 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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