Homeland Definition

hōmlănd
noun
The country in which one was born or makes one's home.
Webster's New World
A country or region into which people of a specified group have relocated or may relocate, regarded as their ancestral land.
Webster's New World
Any of the ten regions designated by South Africa in the 1970s as semiautonomous or nominally independent territories for the black population. The black homelands were dissolved and reincorporated into South Africa in 1994.
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Noun

Singular:
homeland
Plural:
homelands

Homeland Sentence Examples

  • This area was homeland to a civilization dating back to the time of Christ.

  • The language was from his homeland of Karyan, a place he left when he was a child.

  • The Jew had passed from the narrow confines of his homeland into a wider world, and this larger vision of human life reacted on the prophet's theology.

  • If the Scyths came out of upper Asia, the Scythian colonists beyond the Iyrcae might be a division which had remained nearer the homeland, but in dealing with nomads we can suppose such a return as that of the Calmucks (Kalmuks) in the 18th century.

  • The words were from his homeland across the sea.

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Words Starting With

HHOHOM

Words Ending With

DNDAND

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Words Starting With H and Ending With D

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With H8 Letter Words Ending With D