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The country where you were born
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motherland
Word definitions for motherland in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ If the husband is the fuhrer of his family then his wife is the small-scale motherland , the guarantor of future generations. ▪ In fact it offered a relief that, after all, one did have an acceptable motherland . ▪ Subscribers ...
Wikipedia
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Motherland is a 1927 British silent war film directed by G.B. Samuelson and starring Rex Davis , Eva Moore and James Knight . The film was made at Isleworth Studios . It is set during the First World War . It aimed to copy the success of the series of war ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the country where you were born [syn: fatherland , homeland , mother country , country of origin , native land ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1711, from mother (n.1) + land (n.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The country of one's ancestor. 2 The country of one's birth. 3 Country of origin. 4 Mother country in contrast to its colony.
Usage examples of motherland.
No ship of the motherland must fall into their hands while one of the true blood lives.
The Re Mu and the motherland will never know our fate here in the north unless we win through to Mayax.
Uighur is made up of mountains and narrow valleys, but in the motherland wide fields border broad rivers.
He discovered during these days that the tongue of the motherland was becoming his.
No man of the motherland could put on the semblance of Sydyk and thus open closed gates for our eyes.
There surely had not been time enough for the motherland to gather an army, to strike thus at the very heartland of the enemy.
In the motherland, honor and a service fitted to you await your coming.
Poseidon of Atlantis, do you swear to establish once more the dwelling of the Flame, to walk with your people in the light, warring upon the Shadow and all its legions, to hold to the law and the justice, under the Sun, to be a sword and shield for the motherland in her hour of need?
I say that, in all our history, no man ever served the motherland as have you, a stranger.
The few functional vessels we did have departed for the Motherland and then never returned.
He had only returned to Scotland to join the fight for his motherland when Robert the Bruce had been crowned king by Isabel, Countess of Buchan, at Scone.
And then it will be necessary for me to again cross the width of the Motherland to make an example of someone.
Without your tireless effort, the motherland would be a less secure place to live.
My dream has always been to join the special forces and to serve the motherland to the best of my abilities.
Our motherland is our mother, our mother, gentlemen, we are her fledglings and from her we derive our sustenance!