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  • 1Nostalgia for the Future — Studio album by Constants Released 2004 Recorded 2004 Genre Post rock Post metal …

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  • 2Nostalgia — For other uses, see Nostalgia (disambiguation). For the use of the term Nostalgia on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Nostalgia. The term nostalgia describes a yearning for the past, often in idealized form.[1] The word is a learned formation of a Greek… …

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  • 3nostalgia — os*tal gi*a, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a return home + ? pain.] 1. (Med.) Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness. [1913 Webster] 2. A sentimental yearning to return to an earlier time remembered as… …

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  • 4nostalgia — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ wistful ▪ She remembers her life as a singer with a certain wistful nostalgia. ▪ pure ▪ an evening of pure nostalgia ▪ 80s …

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  • 5NOSTALGIA —    A basic subtext of the Western myth is nostalgia for a time in the past when life was somehow better than the present. Early Westerns consciously reminisced about the end of the frontier. But all Westerns look nostalgically to the Western… …

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  • 6nostalgia — nos|tal|gia [nɔˈstældʒə US na: ] n [U] [Date: 1700 1800; : Modern Latin; Origin: Greek nostos returning home + algos pain ] a feeling that a time in the past was good, or the activity of remembering a good time in the past and wishing that things …

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  • 7nostalgia — [[t]nɒstæ̱lʤə[/t]] N UNCOUNT: oft N for n Nostalgia is an affectionate feeling you have for the past, especially for a particularly happy time. He might be influenced by nostalgia for the surroundings of his happy youth... He discerned in the… …

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  • 8nostalgia — n. 1) to feel nostalgia 2) nostalgia for * * * [nɒ stældʒə] to feel nostalgia nostalgia for …

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  • 9nostalgia — nostalgic, adj. nostalgically, adv. /no stal jeuh, jee euh, neuh /, n. 1. a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one s life, to one s home or homeland, or to one s family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the… …

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  • 10nostalgia — noun (U) the slightly sad feeling of remembering happy events or experiences from the past: He thought with nostalgia of his carefree childhood. (+ for): nostalgia for the good old days …

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