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homeland

[hohm-land, -luhnd] / ˈhoʊmˌlænd, -lənd /
NOUN
fatherland
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The expulsion of Artan after an 11-hour interrogation at Miami International Airport had come just hours earlier, accused by a US official of having links to terrorists in his homeland.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano is hoping to bring a taste of his homeland to the Artemis III mission he will pilot near Earth in 2027 to test two lunar modules.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

The Spain international has a year left on his contract at City and has previously indicated he would like to return to play in his homeland at some stage.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

As a result, although they now lived far from their homeland, their genomes still resembled those of their ancestors from Anatolia.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2026

Even though we Dinka people had had to leave our homeland in Southern Sudan years before, we had managed to keep our connections going through a kind of Dinka “grapevine.”

From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau




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