MOTHER COUNTRY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The country where you were born

Synonyms:

country of origin; fatherland; homeland; mother country; motherland; native land

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("mother country" is a kind of...):

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mother country"):

old country (the country of origin of an immigrant)

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