Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One's native land.
- noun The land of one's ancestors.
- noun A country considered as the origin of something.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The land of one's origin; fatherland; the land whence a people originally sprang.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The country of one's ancestors; -- same as
fatherland .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
country of one'sancestors . - noun The country of one's
birth . - noun Country of
origin . - noun Mother country in contrast to its
colonies .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the country where you were born
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Examples
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That was my first time in Africa, what I call the motherland, the land from which our people came.
Greg Hanlon: Only in America!: An Interview with Don King 2009
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We have stood deaf, mute and blind as our motherland is raped by land-grabbing raiders and marauders from the Middle East to India.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Lessons From Columbia U. Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010
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We have stood deaf, mute and blind as our motherland is raped by land-grabbing raiders and marauders from the Middle East to India.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Lessons From Columbia U. Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010
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There are sensitive words everywhere - our motherland is so sensitive.
Boing Boing: December 11, 2005 - December 17, 2005 Archives 2005
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Has our native soil, this land we call our motherland, so slight a hold upon us?
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While I've never been down with the romantic image of any "motherland" -- all land is sacred, if you treat it as such -- there is something to the idea that African music has an ancient soul.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Talking Drums & Juju - King Sunny Ad�� in Brooklyn and More Africa 2009
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He began by talking about the use and misuse of language, what brought him to the UK - the 'motherland' - and, from there, on a journey through British racism.
IRR News 2008
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1The difference in conceptualizing a geographic region as a hinterland rather than as a motherland is like the dissimilarity in being remembered as bystanders to an event rather than as people who made history.
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They said that their return to the motherland is part of the renewal of their allegiance to his majesty king Mohammed vi (a french - speaking daily “aujourd (hui le Maroc” reported on wednsday 27/12/2007)
Global Voices in English » Western Sahara: Landmine Injures Five During Peaceful Protest 2009
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For me, love of the motherland is a personal thing, and I do not want to put it on show by singing the anthem in the company of others ….
Cumpulsory Anthem Law Hits Wrong Note in Kyrgyzstan IWPR 2009
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