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(jɜːʳn)
Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense yearns, present participle yearning, past tense, past participle yearned
verb
If someone yearns for something that they are unlikely to get, they want it very much.
He yearned for freedom. [VERB + for]
I yearned to be a movie actor. [VERB to-infinitive]
Synonyms: long, desire, pine, pant More Synonyms of yearn

yearn in British English

(jɜːn)
verb (intransitive)
1. (usually foll by for or after or an infinitive)
to have an intense desire or longing (for); pine (for)
2. 
to feel tenderness or affection
Derived forms
yearner (ˈyearner)
noun
Word origin
Old English giernan; related to Old Saxon girnian, Old Norse girna, Gothic gairnjan, Old High German gerōn to long for, Sanskrit haryati he likes

yearn in American English

(jɜrn)
verb intransitive
1. 
to be filled with longing or desire
2. 
to feel tenderness or sympathy
Derived forms
yearner (ˈyearner)
noun
Word origin
ME yernen < OE gyrnan < georn, eager, akin to Ger gern, gladly: see hortatory

Examples of 'yearn' in a sentence
yearn

It yearned for days of yore, when men sat unchallenged atop family and social trees.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
If you still yearn for the new woman in your life, man up and tell your girlfriend your feelings have changed.
The Sun (2016)
Winter blues At this time of year I yearn for something to light up the grey.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The thrust of the music made the audience feel happy and yearn to get up and dance.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
We all yearn for something to happen.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Or does she yearn for the days of surly detachment when doing her shopping?
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Do you yearn for something slightly more annoying?
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
In my day we yearned for a halfway house.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Connection is here something both yearned for and guarded against.
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
But the pickers themselves now yearn for those days to return.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
After years of disappointment we yearn for something fresh.
The Sun (2016)
It made me wonder how human beings can yearn for something that can make them suffer so much.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
If she still yearns to be back with her ex she is not emotionally free to have a relationship with you.
The Sun (2011)
Do our MPs still yearn for a universe where they are somehow above the law?
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Don't we all yearn for the days when it was only reds under our beds?
The Sun (2008)
And yet he still yearned for a luminous bubble, for an impossible time of privilege and turmoil.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
They yearn to get naked.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Like a tiger, "pacing the cage," he yearns to get moving again.
Christianity Today (2000)
But, somehow, we did not feel that we yearned for the picturesque nearly so much now as we had earlier in the day.
Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat (1889)

In other languages
yearn

British English: yearn VERB
If someone yearns for something that they are unlikely to get, they want it very much.
He yearned for freedom.
He yearned to see his loved ones again.
  • American English: yearn
  • Brazilian Portuguese: ansiar
  • Chinese: 渴望
  • European Spanish: ansiar
  • French: aspirer
  • German: sich sehnen nach
  • Italian: anelare
  • Japanese: 切望する
  • Korean: 갈망하다
  • European Portuguese: ansiar
  • Latin American Spanish: ansiar

Chinese translation of 'yearn'

yearn

(jəːn)

vi

  1. to yearn for sth 渴望某事 (kěwàng mǒushì)
to yearn to do sth 渴望做某事 (kěwàng zuò mǒushì)
(verb) 
Definition
to have an intense desire or longing
He yearned for freedom.
Synonyms
long
He longed for the good old days.
desire
He was bored and desired change in his life.
pine
pant
hunger
ache
lust
crave
There may be certain times of day when smokers crave a cigarette.
covet
She coveted his job so openly that conversations between them were tense.
itch
I was itching to get involved.
languish
We languished for help that never came.
hanker after
I hankered after a floor-length suede coat.
have a yen for (informal)
eat your heart out over
set your heart upon
suspire (archaic, poetic)
would give your eyeteeth for

Additional synonyms

in the sense of covet
Definition
to long to possess (something belonging to another person)
She coveted his job so openly that conversations between them were tense.
Synonyms
long for,
desire,
fancy (informal),
envy,
crave,
aspire to,
yearn for,
thirst for,
begrudge,
hanker after,
lust after,
set your heart on,
have your eye on,
would give your eyeteeth for
in the sense of crave
Definition
to desire intensely
There may be certain times of day when smokers crave a cigarette.
Synonyms
long for,
yearn for,
hanker after,
be dying for,
want,
need,
require,
desire,
fancy (informal),
hope for,
cry out for (informal),
thirst for,
pine for,
covet,
lust after,
pant for,
sigh for,
set your heart on,
hunger after,
eat your heart out over,
would give your eyeteeth for
in the sense of desire
Definition
to want very much
He was bored and desired change in his life.
Synonyms
want,
long for,
crave,
fancy (informal),
hope for,
ache for,
covet,
aspire to,
wish for,
yearn for,
thirst for,
hanker after,
set your heart on,
desiderate

Synonyms of 'yearn'

yearn

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Additional synonyms

in the sense of hanker after
I hankered after a floor-length suede coat.
Synonyms
desire,
want,
long for,
hope for,
crave,
covet,
wish for,
yearn for,
pine for,
lust after,
eat your heart out,
ache for,
yen for (informal),
itch for,
set your heart on,
hunger for or after,
thirst for or after
in the sense of itch
Definition
to have a restless desire (to do something)
I was itching to get involved.
Synonyms
long,
ache,
crave,
burn,
pine,
pant,
hunger,
lust,
yearn,
hanker
in the sense of languish
Definition
to be listless with desire
We languished for help that never came.
Synonyms
pine,
want,
long,
desire,
sigh,
hunger,
yearn,
hanker,
eat your heart out over,
suspire
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