fatherland
Americannoun
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a person's native country
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the country of a person's ancestors
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of fatherland
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There was nothing else but themselves they could dedicate themselves to—no patria, no fatherland, no nation as yet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
He says that he is grateful for all those fighting for the interest "of the fatherland", adding: "I bow to your feet."
From BBC ● Feb. 29, 2024
"We are strongly motivated to defend our fatherland, and this is the best remedy for fear," he said.
From Reuters ● Aug. 17, 2023
A new ideology extols the Orthodox Church, the fatherland, the family and the “the spiritual over the material.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2023
Since the nineteenth century, millions of Germans had immigrated to the continent, and many maintained strong ties to their fatherland.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
They could not close their eyes for very pain and yearning after their fatherlands or their parents, the wife or child whom they never expected to look upon again.
From Anabasis by Henry Graham Dakyns
Alien to me, and a mockery, are the present-day men, to whom of late my heart impelled me; and exiled am I from fatherlands and motherlands.
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
He did not hate men, but predatory institutions, false fatherlands, and all slave-drivers.
From Red Fleece by Will Levington Comfort
I think that every man has two fatherlands: one his own, the nearer, and the other Italy.
From Hania by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Millions have experienced the inevitable discomfort of a foreign tradition which makes alien their fatherlands, and strangers of their children.
From Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Henry Seidel Canby
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