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
"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
On social media, he wrote that a father should teach his sons how to protect their family, people and fatherland.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2022
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
I think that every man has two fatherlands: one his own, the nearer, and the other Italy.
From Hania by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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
In it might be felt the succession of the ages, and, as it were, the memorials of forgotten fatherlands.
From Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert
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
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
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