mother country
the country of one's birth or ancestry.
the country of origin of settlers or colonists in a place.
Origin of mother country
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How to use mother country in a sentence
Once the mother country itself became “haughty and proud,” bent on “enslaving us all,” Americans knew all too well what they needed to do.
Before July 4, American colonists celebrated Pope’s Day — an anti-Catholic rallying cry | Grant Stanton | July 2, 2021 | Washington PostTrue, the colonies lacked the extremes of wealth and poverty to be seen in the mother country.
David's Book Club: The Radicalism of the American Revolution & The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin | David Frum | February 27, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAll but one of the shortlisted six (Coetzee being the exception) hailed from the mother country.
In that case the mother country would be only too glad to withdraw her troops, of which indeed she had none too many.
The Eve of the Revolution | Carl Becker“Back to the land” is a question there of as much if not greater moment than in the mother country.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph Tatlow
Thus, the breach between the American colonies and the mother country became wider as time passed.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyFor it is to be observed that the whole question was between the mother country and the colony.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayIt was not only in the mother country that frightful acts of bigotry and lust for wealth were enacted.
Spanish Life in Town and Country | L. Higgin and Eugne E. Street
British Dictionary definitions for mother country
the original country of colonists or settlers
another term for fatherland
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