Oxford Concise School Dictionary

by Joyce M. Hawkins, Andrew Delahunty (Editor), Fred McDonald (Editor)

An updated and abridged edition of the Oxford School Dictionary, this dictionary is concise, authoritative, clear and easy to use. It will support you in your reading and writing and help you to acquire essential dictionary skills.

465 pages, Paperback

First published February 28, 2002

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nos·tal·gia

\nä-ˈstal-jə, nə- also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl-\

noun

: pleasure and sadness that is caused by remembering something from the past and wishing that you could experience it again

Full Definition

2 : a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition; 
also : something that evokes nostalgia

nos·tal·gic \-jik\ adjective or noun
nos·tal·gi·cal·ly \-ji-k(ə-)lē\adverb
nos·tal·gist \-jist\ noun

Origin: New Latin, from Greeknostos return home + New Latin -algia; akin to Greek neisthai to return, Old English genesan to survive, Sanskrit nasate he approaches.

First use: 1756