fatherland
Example Sentences
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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
"Even the cats will come out here to shoot, to defend our fatherland," he says.
From BBC • Sep. 27, 2025
"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
When they were finished, they stood and made a toast to the fatherland.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
