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motherland
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Motherland \Moth"er*land`\, n. The country of one's ancestors; -- same as fatherland.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
WordNet
n. the country where you were born [syn: fatherland, homeland, mother country, country of origin, native land]
Wikipedia
"Motherland" is the national anthem of the island country of Mauritius. The music was composed by Philippe Gentil M.B.E. and the lyrics were written by Jean Georges Prosper (Mauritian poet born in 1933). The anthem is short and briefly describes the lucious landscape of Mauritius. It also mentions the qualities of its people: peace, justice, and liberty.
English lyrics
French lyrics
Glory to thee, Motherland
O motherland of mine.
Sweet is thy beauty,
Sweet is thy fragrance,
Around thee we gather
As one people,
As one nation,
In peace, justice and liberty.
Beloved Country,
May God bless thee
For ever and ever.
Gloire à toi (Île Maurice),
(Île Maurice,) Ô ma mère patrie,
Fraîche est ta beauté,
Doux est ton parfum,
Nous voici tous debout,
En un seul peuple,
Une seule nation,
En paix, justice et liberté,
Pays bien aimé,
Que Dieu te bénisse,
Aujourd'hui et toujours.
Motherland is the third solo album by Natalie Merchant, released in 2001. It was her last studio album released on Elektra Records.
The album is musically eclectic, varying from Middle Eastern violin–reggae beat fusion "This House Is on Fire" to 10,000 Maniacs-sounding "Tell Yourself". Folky "Motherland" precedes stylistically Merchant's next album, The House Carpenter's Daughter.
Originally, "The End" was supposed to appear on the album instead of "Not In This Life." Merchant noted that:
''I'd take out one song, 'Not in This Life,' '' she said, referring to a midtempo meditation on love, ''because it seems frivolous to me now. And I'd put back a song called 'The End,' which probably would have gotten me in trouble. Part of the lyric goes: 'That'll be the end of war/ the end of the law of Bible, of Koran, Torah.' I really wanted to put it on the record, but I felt there was so much serious material already that I chose something lighter, for balance.
The album is dedicated to the victims of September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks upon the United States. However, the recording was finished two days before the event, so the songs are not influenced by it. The event has still affected people's interpretations of the lyrics. Additionally, the cover was changed at the last minute to accommodate the post-9/11 world. Her original concept for the photograph on the album cover was a picture of children in a field wearing oxygen masks. We shot these kids in upstate New York on Sept 10, she recalled. And then we were going to reshoot on the 11th. Of course we canceled the session. The day I brought the pictures into the city, there were articles on the run here for Cipro and gas masks. I was getting pressure, anyway, from the record label, friends even, that the image was too controversial. So finally I gave in. A photograph of a demure-looking Ms. Merchant was used instead.
The title song was later covered by Joan Baez and Christy Moore.
Motherland may refer to:
- Homeland, the country in which individual national identity began
- "Motherland" (anthem), the national anthem of Mauritius
- National Song (Montserrat), also called "Motherland"
- Motherland (Natalie Merchant album), 2001
- Motherland (Arsonists Get All the Girls album), 2011
- Motherland (Daedalus album)
- Mother Motherland (also called "The Motherland" or "Mother Russia"), any of several statues in the former Soviet Union commemorating its victory over Germany in World War II
- Motherland (1927 film)
- Motherland (2010 film), a 2010 documentary film directed and written by Owen 'Alik Shahadah
- "Motherland", a 2004 song by Crystal Kay from CK5 (2004)
Motherland ( ) is a 2010 independent documentary film directed and written by Owen 'Alik Shahadah. Motherland is the sequel to the multi-award winning film 500 Years Later.
Motherland is the fourth studio album by Arsonists Get All the Girls. It was released on .
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 films released by British Instructional Films, but critical reaction was negative.
Motherland is a political party in Ukraine established on August 1, 2001. The head of the party is a general in reserves Vilen Martirosian. Vilen Martirosian is known as one of organizers of the Officer's Club of Ukraine (SOU).
Motherland is a 2015 Turkish drama by director Senem Tüzen about a divorced, urban woman who goes to her ancestral village in Anatolia to write a book and is confronted by the unwelcomed arrival of her mother. The drama stars Esra Bezen Bilgin, Nihal Koldaş, Fatma Kısa and Semih Aydın.
Tüzen's debut feature premiered at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival in the International Film Critics' Week section in September, 2015.
Motherland was a left-wing populist coalition of political parties in Latvia, founded in 2004. Its Chairman was Viktors Kalnbērzs and its membership included Juris Žuravļovs. The founding parties were the Social Democratic Welfare Party and "For Freedom, Social Justice and Equal Rights" (Russian abbreviation "ЗаСССР", meaning "ForUSSR"). From 2005 Motherland was represented on the Riga City Council, being elected in a coalition with the Socialist Party of Latvia. In the 2006 parliamentary election Motherland got 2.08% and failed to gain representation in the Saeima. The coalition was dissolved in 2008.
Motherland is the third studio album from Italian Progressive metal band Daedalus.
Roland Grapow (of Helloween and Masterplan) mixed the recordings and played the guitar solo on the song Underground. Nerve Design (previously seen with Threshold, Extrema, Vision Divine, and Sadist) drew the album artwork.
Elisa Montaldo (of Il Tempio delle Clessidre) recorded all of the keyboard and synth sections, using her peculiar vintage sounds. Some vocal lines in "Sand" and "Empty Rooms" were recorded by Trevor (of Sadist). All the choir sections were sung by Daedalus.
The lyrics analyze from different points of view the uneasiness in today’s world.
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!