fatherland
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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
"We have to defend the fatherland," he tells the BBC, echoing speeches given by President Maduro in the wake of the strikes on the boats.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2025
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
"This public holiday marks the inseparability of our centuries-old history, the greatness and glory of the fatherland," Putin told the assembled dignitaries.
From Reuters ● Jun. 12, 2023
No, unfortunately they had never been to the fatherland.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
Thus you will disarm the "fatherlands" and "motherlands," and you will reduce the notion of Motherland to the little bit of social importance that it must have.
From Light by Fitzwater Wray
The outcome was a collection of crude republics, racked by internal dissension and torn by mutual jealousy—patrias bobas, or "foolish fatherlands," as one of their own writers has termed them.
From Hispanic Nations of the New World; a chronicle of our southern neighbors by William R. (William Robert) Shepherd
They could not close their eyes for very pain and yearning after their fatherlands or their parents, the wife or child whom they never expected to look upon again.
From Anabasis by Henry Graham Dakyns
He did not hate men, but predatory institutions, false fatherlands, and all slave-drivers.
From Red Fleece by Will Levington Comfort
The idea of independence makes us turn in the graves we call our fatherlands.'
From Ghetto Comedies by Israel Zangwill
