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HOMELAND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does homeland mean?
• HOMELAND (noun)
The noun HOMELAND has 1 sense:
1. the country where you were born
Familiarity information: HOMELAND used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("homeland" is a kind of...):
country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "homeland"):
old country (the country of origin of an immigrant)
Context examples
An individual who moves from one location to another location within or outside of their homeland for work.
(Migratory Worker, NCI Thesaurus)
An individual that resided in a camp for those displaced from their homeland.
(Lived in Refugee Camp, NCI Thesaurus)
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