HOMESICK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does homesick mean? 

• HOMESICK (adjective)
  The adjective HOMESICK has 1 sense:

1. longing to return home

  Familiarity information: HOMESICK used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOMESICK (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Longing to return home

Similar:

desirous; wishful (having or expressing desire for something)

Derivation:

homesickness (a longing to return home)

 Context examples 

That would be time enough, please God, but Laurie must write to her often, and not let her feel lonely, homesick or anxious.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He was not homesick.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

She could not at first tell why she felt sad, but she became conscious at last of great longing to go home; then she knew she was homesick, although she was a thousand times better off with Mother Holle than with her mother and sister.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He was homesick.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

After waiting awhile, she went to Mother Holle and said, “I am so homesick, that I cannot stay with you any longer, for although I am so happy here, I must return to my own people.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

She was sitting here that day, leaning her head on her hand, with a homesick heart and heavy eyes, thinking of Beth and wondering why Laurie did not come.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The letter went very soon, however, and was promptly answered, for Amy was homesick, and confessed it in the most delightfully confiding manner.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mrs. Kirke asked me if I wouldn't go down to the five o'clock dinner, and feeling a little bit homesick, I thought I would, just to see what sort of people are under the same roof with me.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There will be so little to do that with Lotty to run my errands and help me here and there, I shall only have enough work to keep me from getting lazy or homesick, answered Meg tranquilly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)