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motherland
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun motherland has 1 sense
- motherland(n = noun.location) country of origin, fatherland, homeland, mother country, native land - the country where you were born; Array is a kind of country, land, state
has particulars: old country
CIDE DICTIONARY
motherland, n.
The country of one's ancestors; -- same as fatherland . [1913 Webster]
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