Synonyms for mother country


Grammar : Noun


Définition of mother country

  • noun native land
Example sentences :
  • Isolation from the mother country was a stimulus to the inventive imagination.
  • Extract from : « The American Mind » by Bliss Perry
  • Step by step the mother country and its colonies were advancing to a rupture.
  • Extract from : « The Siege of Boston » by Allen French
  • The houses are substantially built after the fashion of the mother country.
  • Extract from : « Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers » by Various
  • The mother country has a right to something of a share in the bargain.
  • Extract from : « Recollections » by David Christie Murray
  • In some respects their ethical standard is not that of the mother country.
  • Extract from : « Impressions of South Africa » by James Bryce
  • It is solitude—and solitude is the mother country of the strong.
  • Extract from : « My New Curate » by P.A. Sheehan
  • There were some difficulties with the mother country that men were discussing.
  • Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old Salem » by Amanda Minnie Douglas
  • If we have no regard for America, let us at least respect the mother country.
  • Extract from : « A Little Maid of Old Maine » by Alice Turner Curtis
  • This was to invite a secession of the French colonies from the mother country.
  • Extract from : « Albert Gallatin » by John Austin Stevens
  • It was ingenious, but the Mother Country can be ingenious too.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, May 6, 1914 » by Various

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