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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These lands were part of the indigenous homelands of the Jewish people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
The new policy, set by the California Natural Resources Agency, aims to start healing the harm caused by the state’s actions to bar tribes from their homelands and criminalize their cultural and land management practices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
While this system works like crazy for rappers in France or Brazil, who are now all over the charts in their homelands, it potentially hampers artists in the U.K.,
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
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
Some things remained the same—specifically, the determination of settlers and the new republic to force Indigenous peoples off their homelands to make way for settlement.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
