Land of one's birth

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the country where you were born [syn: fatherland , homeland , motherland , country of origin , native land ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mother \Moth"er\, a. Received by birth or from ancestors; native, natural; as, mother language; also acting the part, or having the place of a mother; producing others; originating. It is the mother falsehood from which all idolatry is derived. --T. Arnold. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The country in which a person (or group of people) was born; motherland, homeland

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mother Country ( 2002 ) is a novel by Libby Purves about a young American computer expert who goes in search of the relatives of his biological father, a teenage heroin addict in 1970s London when she had him who was pronounced an unfit mother and who died ...