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
He says that he is grateful for all those fighting for the interest "of the fatherland", adding: "I bow to your feet."
From BBC ● Feb. 29, 2024
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
Exiles shall ye be from all fatherlands and forefather-lands!
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
The idea of independence makes us turn in the graves we call our fatherlands.'
From Ghetto Comedies by Israel Zangwill
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
I think that every man has two fatherlands: one his own, the nearer, and the other Italy.
From Hania by Henryk Sienkiewicz
