homesick meaning

• Adjective: homesick  'howm`sik
  1. Longing to return home

  See also: desirous, homesickness, wishful

  Encyclopedia: Homesick

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  [Medicine]
  adj : longing for home and family while absent from them — home·sick·ness n
  

Examples

1. he was homesick for italy.
2. he was so homesick that he could hardly endure the misery of it.
3. after the meal they felt rusty, and stiff-jointed, and a little homesick once more.
4. i also suggest moving to a city with a chinese community -- that way you wo n't be homesick so soon.
5. now i know where to go when i feel homesick