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MOTHERLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does motherland mean? 

MOTHERLAND (noun)
  The noun MOTHERLAND has 1 sense:

1. the country where you were bornplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


MOTHERLAND (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 ("motherland" is a kind of...):

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

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

old country (the country of origin of an immigrant)


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