NATIVE LAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does native land mean? 

• NATIVE LAND (noun)
  The noun NATIVE LAND has 1 sense:

1. the country where you were born

  Familiarity information: NATIVE LAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATIVE LAND (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 ("native land" is a kind of...):

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

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

old country (the country of origin of an immigrant)

 Context examples 

This letter will reach England by a merchantman now on its homeward voyage from Archangel; more fortunate than I, who may not see my native land, perhaps, for many years.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It passed so swiftly that we were unable to say what it was; but if it were a deer, as was claimed by Lord John, it must have been as large as those monstrous Irish elk which are still dug up from time to time in the bogs of my native land.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)