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noun
- 1. a person's or a people's native land: "he left his homeland to settle in London"
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HOMELAND definition: 1. the country you were born in 2. (in the past) one of the areas in South Africa in which black…. Learn more.
noun. home· land ˈhōm-ˌland. also -lənd. Synonyms of homeland. 1. : native land : fatherland. 2. : a state or area set aside to be a state for a people of a particular national, cultural, or racial origin. especially : bantustan. Synonyms. country. fatherland. home. mother country. motherland. sod. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus.
A homeland is the country where a group originally comes from, or where a person was born. If your grandparents and great-grandparents are Greek, you might consider Greece your homeland.
noun. one's native land. a region created or considered as a state by or for a people of a particular ethnic origin: the Palestinian homeland. any of the thirteen racially and ethnically based regions created in South Africa by the South African government as nominally independent tribal ministates to which Black people were formerly assigned.
n. 1. One's native land. 2. A state, region, or territory that is closely identified with a particular people or ethnic group. 3. Any of the ten regions designated by South Africa in the 1970s as semiautonomous or nominally independent territories for the black population.
Definition of homeland noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
HOMELAND meaning: 1 : the country where someone was born or grew up; 2 : a usually large area where a particular group of people can live.
one's native land. 2. a region created or considered as a state by or for a people of a particular ethnic origin. an Arab homeland. 3. any of the racially and ethnically based regions that existed in South Africa as nominally independent tribal ministates between 1951 and 1994.
homeland meaning, definition, what is homeland: the country where someone was born: Learn more.
A homeland is a place where a cultural, national, or ethnic identity has formed. The definition can also mean simply one's country of birth. When used as a proper noun, the Homeland, as well as its equivalents in other languages, often has ethnic nationalist connotations.
