đất khách

Thân thiện

Ông cụ sống cả đời ở đất khách, lòng vẫn luôn hướng về quê cha đất tổ.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • Strange land, foreign land: A place that is not one's homeland; an unfamiliar or foreign country or region. This term carries a strong connotation of being away from home, often with feelings of loneliness, nostalgia, or displacement.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Ông ấy đã sống nhiều năm trên đất khách. (He has lived for many years in a foreign land.)
  • Nỗi nhớ nhà da diết khi phải sống nơi đất khách quê người. (The homesickness is intense when one has to live in a strange land, a foreign place.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is often used in literary, poetic, or emotional contexts to emphasize the feeling of being an outsider or a stranger far from home. It is rarely used in neutral, geographical descriptions.
• "đất khách quê người": This is a very common, fixed four-word idiom that intensifies the meaning, translating to "a strange land, a foreign place." It strongly emphasizes alienation and not belonging.

Variants and Related Words

• Quê hương (n): Homeland, native land. (This is the direct antonym.)
• Xứ lạ (n): Strange region/land. (A close synonym with a similar meaning.)
• Xứ người (n): Another's land, foreign land. (A synonym focusing on the land belonging to others.)

Synonyms

• Foreign land: A land that is not one's own country.
• Strange land: An unfamiliar territory.
• Alien soil: A more literary synonym for foreign land.

Related Idioms

• Đất khách quê người: A set idiom meaning "a strange land, a foreign place." It is the most common way the term is used.
  • Thân gái dặm trường, nơi đất khách quê người. (A woman traveling far, in a strange land, a foreign place.)

Học thuật

1. Strange land, foreign land