yearning

yearning

She had a yearning to see her long-lost sister again.

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  • Yearning — Flegeton (до 1996) Жанр Мелодичный готик / дум / дэт метал Годы 1994 2010 …   Википедия

  • Yearning — may refer to:* Yearning (1990 film), an Armenian drama film * Yearning (album), a 1994 ambient album * Yearning (band), an atmospheric doom metal band from Finland …   Wikipedia

  • Yearning — Pays d’origine  Finlande Genre musical doom metal Années d activité 1996 – Aujourd hui Labels …   Wikipédia en Français

  • yearning — index desire, eager, predisposition, solicitous, will (desire) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • yearning — [n] desire ache, ambition, appetite, aspiration, craving, craze, eagerness, fancy, fascination, hankering*, hunger, infatuation, liking, longing, love, need, passion, thirst, urge, want; concepts 20,709 …   New thesaurus

  • yearning — [yʉr′niŋ] n. [ME yerning < OE girninge: see YEARN + ING] deep or anxious longing, desire, etc …   English World dictionary

  • yearning — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ deep, desperate, great, passionate ▪ nostalgic, romantic, wistful ▪ spiritual …   Collocations dictionary

  • yearning — n. 1) to express; feel a yearning for 2) a strong yearning 3) a yearning for 4) a yearning to + inf. (she has a yearning to visit the village where she was born) …   Combinatory dictionary

  • yearning — yearn|ing [ˈjə:nıŋ US ˈjə:r ] n [U and C] literary a strong desire for something = ↑longing yearning for ▪ a yearning for travel yearning to do sth ▪ He had a deep yearning to return to his home town …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • yearning — [[t]jɜ͟ː(r)nɪŋ[/t]] yearnings N VAR: oft N for n, N to inf A yearning for something is a very strong desire for it. He spoke of his yearning for another child... He always had a yearning to be a schoolteacher. Syn: longing …   English dictionary

  • yearning — noun (C, U) a strong desire or feeling of wanting something (+ for): an actor with a yearning for recognition | a yearning to do sth: a yearning to travel …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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