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homeland

[hohm-land, -luhnd] / ˈhoʊmˌlænd, -lənd /
NOUN
fatherland
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After a brief period in her homeland, he was raised in north London and honed his craft on pirate radio.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

The pictograms in the Codex Boturini narrate the story of the migration of the Aztecs, also known as Mexica, from their ancestral homeland to the shores of Lake Texcoco, where they built Tenochtitlán.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

The destructive ideological movements I left behind eight years earlier had crossed the ocean to my adopted homeland.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

The royal couple's return to Britain along with their children Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5, marked the end of a long exile from Harry's homeland.

From Barron's Sep. 2, 2026

To protect the home front, and exert control over it, Hitler created a homeland militia, the Volkssturm, or People’s Army.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Carney is pressing to join the EU’s study-abroad program, as well, hoping a generation of Europeans and Canadians will attend university in each other’s homelands.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

These lands were part of the indigenous homelands of the Jewish people.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 10, 2026

The highway traverses the ancestral homelands of more than 25 tribal nations.

From Los Angeles Times May 12, 2026

Several hundred miles away, the traditional order in Scotland was turned over in 2007, when the SNP stunned the political establishment by beating Labour in another of its spiritual homelands.

From BBC Apr. 25, 2026

However, with no such protection, the Indigenous peoples stood their ground against ongoing incursions into their homelands.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz




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