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- 1. a person's or a people's native land: "I could finally go back to my homeland"
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The meaning of HOMELAND is native land : fatherland. How to use homeland in a sentence.
noun [ C ] uk / ˈhəʊm.lænd / us / ˈhoʊm.lænd / Add to word list. the country you were born in. (in the past) one of the areas in South Africa in which black people were separated from whites under the political system of apartheid. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Countries, nationalities & continents: country & nation.
Definition of homeland noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
noun. one's native land. a region created or considered as a state by or for a people of a particular ethnic origin: the Palestinian homeland. any of the thirteen racially and ethnically based regions created in South Africa by the South African government as nominally independent tribal ministates to which Black people were formerly assigned.
homeland in American English. (ˈhoʊmˌlænd ; ˈhoʊmlənd ) noun. 1. the country in which one was born or makes one's home. 2. a country or region into which people of a specified group have relocated or may relocate, regarded as their ancestral land.
A homeland is the country where a group originally comes from, or where a person was born. If your grandparents and great-grandparents are Greek, you might consider Greece your homeland.
HOMELAND meaning: 1 : the country where someone was born or grew up; 2 : a usually large area where a particular group of people can live.
There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun homeland. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
A homeland is a place where a cultural, national, or ethnic identity has formed. The definition can also mean simply one's country of birth. [1] . When used as a proper noun, the Homeland, as well as its equivalents in other languages, often has ethnic nationalist connotations.
homeland - definition, audio pronunciation and more for homeland: the country where you were born: See more in Learner's Dictionary - Cambridge Dictionary.
