English Dictionary

nostalgia

/nɒˈstældʒə/

noun

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

I often feel nostalgia when I listen to old songs.

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.