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homeland definition

home·land (hōm′land′, -lənd)

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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