Land of one's birth

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 ...

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