English Dictionary

nostalgia

IPA（発音記号）

/nɒˈstældʒə/

名詞

可算名詞 稀用 不可算名詞

(now uncommon) A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness. / (transferred sense) A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.

日本語の意味

郷愁：故郷や懐かしい場所への恋しさ、またはホームシックの感情。 / 懐古の情：過ぎ去った時代や昔の物事に対する、ほろ苦い憧れや郷愁感。

After two years abroad, she felt a sudden nostalgia for the narrow streets and warm kitchen of her childhood home.

2年間の海外生活の後、彼女はふと子供時代の家の狭い路地や温かい台所に対する郷愁にとらわれた。

意味（1）

(now uncommon) A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.

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.

意味（2）

(transferred sense) A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.

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.

nostalgias （ plural ）