homesick Syllabification: (home·sick)Pronunciation: /ˈhōmˌsik/Translate homesick | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of homesick adjective experiencing a longing for one’s home during a period of absence from it:he was homesick for America after five weeks in EuropeDerivatives homesickness noun homesick in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of homesick in the British & World English dictionary