Nostalgia

Nostalgia Meanings:

• Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness
• A sentimental yearning to return to an earlier time remembered as happier or more pleasant, or a former place evoking happy memories; a longing to experience again a former happy time; as, a nostalgia for the brotherhood of the Woodstock music festival; a nostalgia for the comradeship of one's college friends
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /nɒˈstæld͡ʒə/
• (General American) IPA(key): /nɑˈstæld͡ʒə/, /nəˈstæld͡ʒə/, /nɔˈstæld͡ʒə/; /nɑˈstɑld͡ʒə/, /nəˈstɑld͡ʒə/, /nɔˈstɑld͡ʒə/
• (General Australian) IPA(key): /nəˈstæɫd͡ʒə/
• (now uncommon) A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.
• (transferred sense) A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.
• "nostalgia" in Kielitoimiston sanakirja (Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish).
• “nostalgia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
• “nostalgia” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• nostalgia (yearning for the past)
• “nostalgia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014