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
"Even the cats will come out here to shoot, to defend our fatherland," he says.
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
Since the nineteenth century, millions of Germans had immigrated to the continent, and many maintained strong ties to their fatherland.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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
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
Will they stand with folded arms and see their fatherlands attacked?
From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various
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
Alien to me, and a mockery, are the present-day men, to whom of late my heart impelled me; and exiled am I from fatherlands and motherlands.
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
