homeland

«homeland» in Mova's school dictionary: the country where you or your family were born or come from — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a homeland, homelands)

meaning for a pupil

1) A homeland is the country where you or your family were born or come from. tree →

2) A homeland is the land a people or nation see as their own. tree →

sense in the lessons

Geography and history (refugees far from their homeland), stories about migration, news.

examples

• She missed her homeland after moving to Canada. tree →
• Many refugees hope to return to their homeland. tree →
• Ireland is the homeland of my grandparents. tree →
• The poem is about love for one's homeland. tree →
• The tribe returned to their homeland. tree →
• Our class mapped each family's homeland. tree →

note

Countable. Similar: home country, motherland, fatherland. It carries strong feelings of belonging.

In the corpora

• Donkeys bray to call other donkeys, and the sound can carry about 3 kilometres across their desert homeland.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «homeland» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.