fatherland

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

"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

"For me personally, it's about maintaining the connection with the motherland, the fatherland - whatever you call it," she says.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2022

Once I hoped it would become a fatherland to me, since I had lost my own.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

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

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

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

From Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert

The outcome was a collection of crude republics, racked by internal dissension and torn by mutual jealousy—patrias bobas, or "foolish fatherlands," as one of their own writers has termed them.

From Hispanic Nations of the New World; a chronicle of our southern neighbors by William R. (William Robert) Shepherd

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