Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - nostalgia
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Nostalgia
nostalgia
noun Etymology: New Latin, from Greek nostos return home + New Latin -algia; akin to Greek neisthai to return, Old English genesan to survive, Sanskrit nasate he approaches Date: 1756 1. the state of being homesick ; homesickness 2. a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition; also something that evokes ~ • nostalgic adjective or noun • nostalgically adverb • nostalgist noun
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n. 1 (often foll. by for) sentimental yearning for a period of the past. 2 regretful or wistful memory of an earlier time. 3 severe homesickness. Derivatives nostalgic adj. nostalgically adv. Etymology: mod.L f. Gk nostos return home ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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Nostalgia is an affectionate feeling you have for the past, especially for a particularly happy time. He might be influenced by nostalgia for his happy youth... He discerned in the novel an air of Sixties nostalgia. N-UNCOUNT: oft N for n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ n the slightly sad feeling of remembering happy events or experiences from the past (He thought with nostalgia of his carefree childhood.) + for (nostalgia for the good old days) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1770, Mod.L. rendering of Ger. heimweh, from Gk. nostos "homecoming" + algos "pain, grief, distress." Originally "severe homesickness," transfered sense of "wistful yearning for the past" first recorded 1920. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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