nostalgia

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UK /nɒˈstæld͡ʒə/ US /nɑˈstæld͡ʒə/

noun 2

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(noun.)

ADJ

great

pure

Watching old home videos filled her with pure nostalgia for her childhood.

QUANT

wave

A sudden wave of nostalgia hit her when she found old photos from her childhood.

VERB + NOSTALGIA

feel

Looking through old photos always makes me feel nostalgic about my childhood summers.

evoke | indulge in, wallow in

NOSTALGIA + NOUN

buff

History enthusiasts and nostalgia buffs lined up outside the vintage record shop on opening day.

trip

Watching old home videos took me on a nostalgia trip down memory lane.

PREP

with ~

She looked through her old photo album with nostalgia, smiling at memories from childhood.

~ for

My grandfather often talks about his nostalgia for the music and fashion of the 1970s.

PHRASES

a feeling/sense of nostalgia

Definitions

noun

A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.

Seeing food at camp similar to his mother's cooking sent a wave of nostalgia through him.

I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.

A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.

an alumnus' feelings of nostalgia for his/her years in high school

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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Seeing food at camp similar to his mother's cooking sent a wave of nostalgia through him.

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I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.

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an alumnus' feelings of nostalgia for his/her years in high school

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Tom loves the nostalgia of listening to hit songs from his youth.

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Tom was overwhelmed with nostalgia when he went back to visit his old school fifty years after he had graduated from it.

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Listening to this song fills my heart with nostalgia.

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