Synonyms for fatherland

Grammar : Noun

Spell : fah-th er-land

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɑ ðərˌlænd

Définition of fatherland

Origin : 1620s, from father (n.) + land (n.). In modern use often a loan-translation of German Vaterland, itself a loan-translation of Latin patria (terra), literally "father's land." Late Old English/Middle English fæderland (c.1100) meant "parental land, inheritance."

noun homeland

Example sentences :

The plains were fatherland and mother-country, home and kindred, to Tom.
Extract from : « The Village Watch-Tower » by (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin

There, in his fatherland, he will exhibit his own type of Christianity.
Extract from : « Slavery Ordained of God » by Rev. Fred A. Ross, D.D.

In the meantime both my brothers have died fighting for the Fatherland.
Extract from : « Blood and Iron » by John Hubert Greusel

So that, by reason of their fatherland, each several citizen can live at quiet and secure.
Extract from : « Hiero » by Xenophon

And herein it is open to us to praise both his fatherland and his family.
Extract from : « Agesilaus » by Xenophon

He did not want to arrive a day too late to serve his fatherland.
Extract from : « Agesilaus » by Xenophon

How can such folk be other than sorry friends and ill defenders of the fatherland?
Extract from : « The Economist » by Xenophon

The courts, the bar, the bench of our fatherland, are shut to us!
Extract from : « The Wild Geese » by Stanley John Weyman

Let us now turn to the Zoroastrians who had remained behind in their fatherland.
Extract from : « Les Parsis » by D. Menant

But the Saints who are in our Fatherland are not capable of making satisfaction.
Extract from : « On Prayer and The Contemplative Life » by St. Thomas Aquinas

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