yearn

Meaning

1. To have a strong desire for something or to do something; to long for or to do something.
2. To have a strong desire for something or to do something; to long for or to do something.
3. Of music, words, etc.: to express strong desire or longing.
4. To have strong feelings of affection, love, sympathy, etc., toward someone.
5. (obsolete) To be distressed or pained; to grieve; to mourn.
6. Often followed by out: to perform (music) which conveys or say (words) which express strong desire or longing.
7. To have a strong desire or longing (for something or to do something).
8. (obsolete) To cause (someone) to have strong feelings of affection, love, sympathy, etc.; also, to grieve or pain (someone).

long

wish for

hope for

thirst for

admire

yearn for

be sad

entice away

hanker for

thirst after

be sexually aroused

love

❤️

be enamoured with

lend off

be eagerly desirous

homesick for

restless for

adore

anticipate

aspire to

be in heat

be famished

be fond of

beg for

be starving

desire for

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/jɜːn/

The verb is derived from Middle English yernen, yern (“to express or feel desire; to desire, long or wish for; to lust after; to ask or demand for”) [and other forms], from Old English ġeornan (“to desire, yearn; to beg”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *girnijan (“to be eager for, desire”), from Proto-Germanic *girnijaną (“to desire, want”), from *gernaz (“eager, willing”) (from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“to yearn for”)) + *-janą (suffix forming factitive verbs from adjectives). The noun is derived from the verb.

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