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1mother country — mother countries also Mother Country 1) N COUNT: oft with poss Someone s mother country is the country in which they or their ancestors were born and to which they still feel emotionally linked, even if they live somewhere else. Dr Kengerli looks …
2mother country — mother .country n [C usually singular] 1.) someone s mother country is the country where they or their family were born and to which they feel a very strong emotional connection, even if they are no longer living there = ↑motherland 2.) a… …
3mother country — n. MOTHERLAND …
4mother country — noun the country where you were born (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑fatherland, ↑homeland, ↑motherland, ↑country of origin, ↑native land • Hypernyms: ↑country, ↑state, ↑ …
5mother country — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. motherland, native land, native country, homeland, old country; see also country 3 , nation 1 …
6mother country — noun The country in which a person (or group of people) was born; motherland, homeland …
7mother country — /ˈmʌðə ˌkʌntri/ (say mudhuh .kuntree) noun (also upper case) the country from which a colony has been settled (in Australia, Great Britain); motherland …
8country — Synonyms and related words: Arcadian, acres, agrarian, agrestic, agricultural, airspace, alluvion, alluvium, arable land, area, belt, blue ribbon jury, boondocks, bucolic, campestral, clay, clod, confines, continental shelf, corridor, countrified …
9Motherland — is a term that may refer to a mother country, i.e. the place of one s birth, the place of origin of an ethnic group or immigrant, or a Metropole in contrast to its colonies. This usage is sometimes seen in English, maybe more often in the social… …
10country — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. land, region, tract, district, territory; countryside, plain, fields, the sticks (inf.); state, people, fatherland, home, nation; power. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Said of people, manners, etc.] Syn.… …
