yearn
/jəːn/verb
To long for something deeply.
Example sentence
- “She yearned to see her family again after two years overseas.”
Takes 'for' or an infinitive: 'yearn for home', 'yearn to travel'. Literary; in speech people 'long for' things.
Featured as word of the day on May 29, 2026.
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