MOTHER COUNTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mother country mean? 

• MOTHER COUNTRY (noun)
  The noun MOTHER COUNTRY has 1 sense:

1. the country where you were born

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOTHER COUNTRY (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 ("mother country" is a kind of...):

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

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

old country (the country of origin of an immigrant)