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Webster 1913 Edition
nostalgia
nos-tal′gi-a
,Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] a return home + [GREEK] pain.]
1.
(Med.)
Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.
Definition 2024
nostalgia
nostalgia
See also: nostalgía
English
Noun
nostalgia (countable and uncountable, plural nostalgias)
- A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.
- A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.
- 2013 August 16, Oliver Burkeman, “This is the cutest article”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 20:
- I can't have been the only person, last week, to feel a rush of nostalgia upon learning that Thames Water had removed a bus-sized, 15-tonne lump of food fat ("mixed with wet wipes") from the sewers under London. The fatberg was an August news story redolent of the old-fashioned silly season.
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- Reminiscence of the speaker's childhood or younger years.
Derived terms
Translations
yearning for the past, homesickness
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Finnish
Etymology
From Late Latin nostalgia, from Ancient Greek *νοσταλγία (*nostalgía), from νόστος (nóstos, “a return home”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain, suffering”).
Noun
nostalgia
Declension
| Inflection of nostalgia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | nostalgia | nostalgiat | |
| genitive | nostalgian | nostalgioiden nostalgioitten |
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| partitive | nostalgiaa | nostalgioita | |
| illative | nostalgiaan | nostalgioihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | nostalgia | nostalgiat | |
| accusative | nom. | nostalgia | nostalgiat |
| gen. | nostalgian | ||
| genitive | nostalgian | nostalgioiden nostalgioitten nostalgiainrare |
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| partitive | nostalgiaa | nostalgioita | |
| inessive | nostalgiassa | nostalgioissa | |
| elative | nostalgiasta | nostalgioista | |
| illative | nostalgiaan | nostalgioihin | |
| adessive | nostalgialla | nostalgioilla | |
| ablative | nostalgialta | nostalgioilta | |
| allative | nostalgialle | nostalgioille | |
| essive | nostalgiana | nostalgioina | |
| translative | nostalgiaksi | nostalgioiksi | |
| instructive | — | nostalgioin | |
| abessive | nostalgiatta | nostalgioitta | |
| comitative | — | nostalgioineen | |
Italian
Etymology
From Late Latin nostalgia, from Ancient Greek *νοσταλγία (*nostalgía), from νόστος (nóstos, “a return home”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain, suffering”).
Noun
nostalgia f (plural nostalgie)
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Anagrams
Portuguese
Etymology
From Late Latin nostalgia, from Ancient Greek *νοσταλγία (*nostalgía), from νόστος (nóstos, “a return home”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain, suffering”).
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /nuʃ.taɫ.ˈʒi.ɐ/
- Hyphenation: nos‧tal‧gi‧a
Noun
nostalgia f (plural nostalgias)
- nostalgia (yearning for the past)
Spanish
Etymology
From Late Latin nostalgia, from Ancient Greek *νοσταλγία (*nostalgía), from νόστος (nóstos, “a return home”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain, suffering”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [no̞sˈta̠l.xja̠]
Noun
nostalgia m (plural nostalgias)