aching, desiderium, homesick, homesickness, honing, languishing, languishment, longing, mal du pays, maladie du pays, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostomania, pining, wishful, wistful, yearnful, yearning, yen
Definitionn. a yearning for something or to do something
Last update: October 13, 2015
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He who has daughters, he is hankering for a son. [noun]
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But for some, a new start in a different culture can leave them hankering after the past. [noun]
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There may be honey-pots hid in these rocks, and I am a beast, you know, that has a hankering for the sweets. [noun]
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I liked it much better than that of my father, but still had a hankering for the sea. [noun]
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However, the eastern hankering after the eremitical life long survived, and it was only by dint of legislation, both ecclesiastical (council of Chalcedon) and civil (Justinian Code), that the Basilian cenobitic form of monasticism came to prevail throughout the Greek-speaking lands, though the eremitical forms have always maintained themselves. [Please select]
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She was hankering for many things, she scarcely knew what. [Please select]
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"I was hankering for a hot supper," said Abe as they began eating. [Please select]
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She might just as well have been sitting hankering on Hampstead Heath. [Please select]
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Maitland knew that, and proposed to satisfy herself as to the "hankering." [Please select]
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From chance words during this spell of leave, I had divined hankering after its various fleshpots. [Please select]
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"Does that mean that you are hankering after politics." [Please select]
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