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
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
On social media, he wrote that a father should teach his sons how to protect their family, people and fatherland.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2022
Once I hoped it would become a fatherland to me, since I had lost my own.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
He did not hate men, but predatory institutions, false fatherlands, and all slave-drivers.
From Red Fleece by Will Levington Comfort
From all mountains do I look out for fatherlands and motherlands.
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The idea of independence makes us turn in the graves we call our fatherlands.'
From Ghetto Comedies by Israel Zangwill
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
In it might be felt the succession of the ages, and, as it were, the memorials of forgotten fatherlands.
From Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert
