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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

nostalgia

/nɑˈstæld͡ʒə/

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What does nostalgia mean?

noun

  1. A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.
  2. A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.

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IPA pronunciation

/nɑˈstæld͡ʒə/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/nəˈstæld͡ʒə//nɔˈstæld͡ʒə/
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Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.
W. Somerset (William Somerset) MaughamThe Moon and SixpenceProject Gutenberg ebook #222
Swifter in their movements and apparently satisfied with their honeyed thistle-heads, the Spheges, huntresses of Crickets or Ephippigers, die as quickly of nostalgia.
Jean-Henri FabreMore Hunting WaspsTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #3462
More book examples (3)
It is asserted that uneducated people in lonesome, very isolated regions, such as mountain tops, great moors, coast country, are particularly subject to nostalgia.
Hans GrossCriminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and StudentsTranslated by Horace Meyer KallenProject Gutenberg ebook #1320
He fretted, seized with nostalgia that flight only could cure.
Jules VerneTwenty Thousand Leagues under the SeaProject Gutenberg ebook #164
Nostalgia is the name generally given to that variety of melancholia in which there is an intense longing for home or country.
George M. (George Milbrey) Gould; Walter L. (Walter Lytle) PyleAnomalies and Curiosities of MedicineProject Gutenberg ebook #747