FATHERLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fatherland mean? 

• FATHERLAND (noun)
  The noun FATHERLAND has 1 sense:

1. the country where you were born

  Familiarity information: FATHERLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FATHERLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The country where you were born

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

country of origin; fatherland; homeland; mother country; motherland; native land

Hypernyms ("fatherland" is a kind of...):

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fatherland"):

old country (the country of origin of an immigrant)

 Context examples 

Is it strange that when Arpad and his legions swept through the Hungarian fatherland he found us here when he reached the frontier; that the Honfoglalas was completed there?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

An austere patriot's passion for his fatherland!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)