COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does country of origin mean? 

• COUNTRY OF ORIGIN (noun)
  The noun COUNTRY OF ORIGIN has 1 sense:

1. the country where you were born

  Familiarity information: COUNTRY OF ORIGIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COUNTRY OF ORIGIN (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 ("country of origin" is a kind of...):

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

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

old country (the country of origin of an immigrant)