Meaning of nostalgist | Babel Free

Definitions

A person who is prone to nostalgia.

Examples

“When I was a little girl, if they ever called me a backward child they must have⟳ meant a looking-backward child; for I grew up to claim⟳ the proud title of the world’s champion nostalgist.”

“The railroad also hears from nostalgists with fond memories of the station, buffs, who ask⟳ for such items as clocks and train⟳ gates and small boys who write⟳ in all the time asking for pieces of the floor.”

“After a seven-year interlude […] she has brought back the sweetly madcap nostalgist of her fondly remembered 2001 show⟳, which opened at Arci’s Place⟳, now defunct, on lower Park⟳ Avenue.”

“Of the possible postpandemic identities one can assume⟳, there’s the early 2000s nostalgist in ironic Juicy Couture sweats, […]”

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