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fatherland

[fah-ther-land] / ˈfɑ ðərˌlænd /
NOUN
homeland
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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

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

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

He did not hate men, but predatory institutions, false fatherlands, and all slave-drivers.

From Red Fleece by Will Levington Comfort

But since the religious in the Filipinas Islands are not rooted in their fatherlands, but on the contrary regard themselves as exiled therefrom, it is impossible for them to return thither.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Edward Gaylord Bourne

The idea of independence makes us turn in the graves we call our fatherlands.'

From Ghetto Comedies by Israel Zangwill

I think that every man has two fatherlands: one his own, the nearer, and the other Italy.

From Hania by Henryk Sienkiewicz

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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