Usually means: Longing for the past fondly.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word nostalgia:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. nostalgia: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. nostalgia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nostalgia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nostalgia: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nostalgia: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nostalgia, nostalgia: Wordnik
  7. nostalgia: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. nostalgia: Wiktionary
  9. nostalgia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. nostalgia: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nostalgia: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. nostalgia: Dictionary.com
  13. nostalgia: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. nostalgia: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Nostalgia (Annie Lennox album), Nostalgia (Frampton film), Nostalgia (Ivan Kral album), Nostalgia (TV series), Nostalgia (disambiguation), Nostalgia (novel), Nostalgia (video game), Nostalgia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Nostalgia: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. nostalgia: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. nostalgia: Rhymezone
  19. Nostalgia: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. nostalgia: Free Dictionary
  21. nostalgia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. nostalgia: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. Nostalgia: The Word Detective
  24. nostalgia: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nostalgia: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nostalgia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. nostalgia: Medical dictionary
  3. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nostalgia, Nostalgia, Nostalgia: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

(Note: See nostalgias as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (now uncommon) A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.
noun:  (transferred sense) A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.

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    sepia,     mustard,     olive green,     burnt sienna,     teal,     mauve,     rust,     sage,     maroon,     taupe



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