fatherland

There was nothing else but themselves they could dedicate themselves to—no patria, no fatherland, no nation as yet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

He says that he is grateful for all those fighting for the interest "of the fatherland", adding: "I bow to your feet."

From BBC ● Feb. 29, 2024

"We are strongly motivated to defend our fatherland, and this is the best remedy for fear," he said.

From Reuters ● Aug. 17, 2023

A new ideology extols the Orthodox Church, the fatherland, the family and the “the spiritual over the material.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2023

Amongst the tales they related to me were those of wars fought by our ancestors in defense of the fatherland.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Millions have experienced the inevitable discomfort of a foreign tradition which makes alien their fatherlands, and strangers of their children.

From Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Henry Seidel Canby

In it might be felt the succession of the ages, and, as it were, the memorials of forgotten fatherlands.

From Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert

But since the religious in the Filipinas Islands are not rooted in their fatherlands, but on the contrary regard themselves as exiled therefrom, it is impossible for them to return thither.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Edward Gaylord Bourne

I think that every man has two fatherlands: one his own, the nearer, and the other Italy.

From Hania by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Exiles shall ye be from all fatherlands and forefather-lands!

From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche