fatherland
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7.4
- noun
- /ˈfɑːðərlænd/
:
patria
- You have a duty to the Fatherland.
- serve your fatherland
- life for the fatherland
He then returned to his fatherland and eventually reached his village.
- He then returned to his fatherland and eventually reached his village.
- I speak to you as a friend, as one who knows of your deep attachment to your fatherland, as one who shares your aspirations for liberty and justice for all.
- Honor, freedom, king and Kaiser fatherland, God justice.
- So oh, he also wrote Yugoslavia, My Fatherland, which I have but have not read.
- Annihilation of interior life, extreme anguish for the Fatherland.
Examples
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Let us note an obvious thing: Germany was his Fatherland, Russia was his Motherland.
Fiction book (1996) -
Well, how are things in the fatherland?
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Tomorrow, you will make your fatherland proud.
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We know that we should love our Fatherland more than our own life.
Blog text (31) -
Are you ready to fight for the fatherland?
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But the fatherland stands with us.
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He then returned to his fatherland and eventually reached his village.
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I speak to you as a friend, as one who knows of your deep attachment to your fatherland, as one who shares your aspirations for liberty and justice for all.
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The fatherland demands respect.
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Are you ready to fight for your fatherland?
Synonyms
177
3.1
The country where someone is born or where they feel they belong
22
4.6
The country where you were born or that you feel strongly connected to
11
2.7
A country where a person was born or something was made
9
3.6
A country where a person was born and still feels at home
5
3.4
The country a person or their family came from before moving
3
3.5
The country where you were born or the one you feel most connected to
1
4.4
The land where you are born and grow up
1
7.9
A person's native country that they love
Compounds
An organization from the Basque region that used violence to try to gain independence
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word fatherland comes from two simple English words: father ('a male parent') and land ('country' or 'ground'). So fatherland literally means the 'land of your fathers' and is used for the country you were born in or feel a strong, often patriotic, loyalty to.