[U] a feeling of sadness mixed with pleasure and affection when you think of happy times in the past:
a sense / wave / pang of nostalgia * She is filled with nostalgia for her own college days.
nostalgic adjective:
nostalgic memories * I feel quite nostalgic for the place where I grew up.
nostalgically adverb:
to look back nostalgically to your childhood
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is nostalgia a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, nostalgia is tagged as noun.
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