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fatherland

[fah-ther-land] / ˈfɑ ðərˌlænd /
NOUN
homeland
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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

"We once again reiterate to Ecowas or any other adventurer our firm determination to defend our fatherland," the statement, which was read out on TV, said.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 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

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

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

From Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert

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

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

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

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

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


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