homeland

/'houmlænd/

Thân thiện

She looks at a photograph of her homeland with a smile.

Definition

Noun: 1. The country where a person was born or which they regard as their native country: This is the primary meaning, referring to one's country of origin or the nation with which one feels a fundamental cultural, historical, or ancestral connection. 2. A region or territory considered the traditional or ancestral home of a particular people: This sense emphasizes the land as a source of ethnic or national identity, often for a people who may be dispersed.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • She felt a deep longing for her homeland after many years abroad.
  • The festival celebrates the music and traditions of their homeland.
  • For many immigrants, their children's homeland is the country where they were raised, not the parents' country of birth.

Advanced Usage

• "Homeland security": This is a compound term (listed here as it is a common fixed phrase) referring to a national effort to protect a country's territory, citizens, and infrastructure from threats such as terrorism.
  • The department of homeland security issued a new travel advisory.
• The word often carries strong emotional and patriotic connotations, evoking feelings of belonging, heritage, and sometimes nostalgia.

Variants and Related Words

• Homelands (plural noun): Multiple native countries or regions. Historically, it also refers to the territories designated for Black South Africans under the apartheid system.
  • They visited their ancestral homelands in Europe.
• Homelandless (adjective, less common): Without a homeland.
• Motherland / Fatherland (nouns): Synonyms with similar emotional weight, with "motherland" being more common in some languages/cultures (e.g., Russia) and "fatherland" in others (e.g., Germany).

Synonyms

• Native land: The land of one's birth.
• Country of origin: A more formal or neutral term for the country where someone was born.
• Mother country: Often used by people in former colonies to refer to the colonizing nation, or more generally to one's ancestral nation.

Idioms and Phrases

• "The homeland calls": A poetic or rhetorical phrase expressing a powerful pull or duty to one's native country.
  • After his studies, he felt the homeland called him back to serve his community.

Học thuật

Noun

1. the country where you were born

Từ đồng nghĩa

• fatherland
• motherland
• mother country
• country of origin
• native land