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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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
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
"This public holiday marks the inseparability of our centuries-old history, the greatness and glory of the fatherland," Putin told the assembled dignitaries.
From Reuters ● Jun. 12, 2023
No, unfortunately they had never been to the fatherland.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
Thus you will disarm the "fatherlands" and "motherlands," and you will reduce the notion of Motherland to the little bit of social importance that it must have.
From Light by Wray, Fitzwater
I think that every man has two fatherlands: one his own, the nearer, and the other Italy.
From Hania by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
The outcome was a collection of crude republics, racked by internal dissension and torn by mutual jealousy—patrias bobas, or "foolish fatherlands," as one of their own writers has termed them.
From Hispanic Nations of the New World; a chronicle of our southern neighbors by Shepherd, William R. (William Robert)
Will they stand with folded arms and see their fatherlands attacked?
From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various
In it might be felt the succession of the ages, and, as it were, the memorials of forgotten fatherlands.
From Salammbo by Flaubert, Gustave
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