homeland
noun (a homeland, homelands)
Everyday
- A homeland is the country where you or your family were born or come from. tree →
- A homeland is the land a people or nation see as their own. tree →
In the lessons
Geography and history (refugees far from their homeland), stories about migration, news.
Examples
- She missed her homeland after moving to Canada. tree →
- Many refugees hope to return to their homeland. tree →
- Ireland is the homeland of my grandparents. tree →
- The poem is about love for one's homeland. tree →
- The tribe returned to their homeland. tree →
- Our class mapped each family's homeland. tree →
Note
Countable. Similar: home country, motherland, fatherland. It carries strong feelings of belonging.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «homeland» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «homeland» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/homeland/