fatherland, homeland, motherland, mother country, country of origin, native land
(noun) the country where you were born
Source: WordNet® 3.1
homeland (plural homelands)
The country that one regards as home.
One's country of residence.
One's country of birth.
The traditional territory of an ethnic group.
(South Africa, historical) An area set aside for black South Africans under the policy of apartheid.
Synonym: bantustan
• land
• Holdeman
Homeland
A census-designated place in Riverside County, California, United States.
Source: Wiktionary
25 February 2025
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
