fatherland - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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From father +‎ land. Compare Dutch vaderland (“fatherland”), German Vaterland (“fatherland”), Danish fædreland (“fatherland”), Icelandic föðurland (“fatherland”).

fatherland (plural fatherlands)

  1. The country of one's ancestors.
  2. The country of one's birth, origin.

country of one's ancestry