homeland
noun
one's native land.
homelands
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pluralof homeland.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The highway traverses the ancestral homelands of more than 25 tribal nations.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
Deported not to their homelands but to unfamiliar cities deep inside Mexico, thousands of migrants are stranded in a dangerous, bureaucratic limbo with little support and no clear path forward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
Many say they plan to go to Russia rather than return to their homelands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
President David Adeang also floated the possibility of sending the immigrants -- some of whom advocacy groups say are refugees -- back to their homelands.
From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025
By the mid-1770s, as was the case everywhere else on Native homelands, settlers had already invaded and been squatting there.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
