fatherlands

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of fatherland.
  fatherland

  noun

  one's native country.

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fatherlands

But since the religious in the Filipinas Islands are not rooted in their fatherlands, but on the contrary regard themselves as exiled therefrom, it is impossible for them to return thither.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Edward Gaylord Bourne

The idea of independence makes us turn in the graves we call our fatherlands.'

From Ghetto Comedies by Israel Zangwill

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 Fitzwater Wray

I think that every man has two fatherlands: one his own, the nearer, and the other Italy.

From Hania by Henryk Sienkiewicz

In it might be felt the succession of the ages, and, as it were, the memorials of forgotten fatherlands.

From Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert

Related Words

• motherland