fatherland
fatherland noun: the country of one's ancestors.
Noun
fatherland (plural fatherlands)
- The country of one's ancestors.
- The country of one's birth, origin.
- Lenin frequently expressed himself on these lines before and during the War; he quoted with emphasis the famous saying that the working man has no fatherland, and believed it quite literally.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in...
fatherland meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu
fatherland in Hindi
- country of one's ancestry
- जन्मभूमि janmabhūmi, वतन vatan, स्वदेश svadeś
fatherland in Marathi
- पितृभूमी
fatherland in Bengali
- country of one's ancestry
- ওয়াতন ōẇaton
fatherland in Telugu
- పితృభూమి, పితృభూములు
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- fatherland in Malayalam
- പിതൃഭൂമി, പിതൃരാജ്യം, ജന്മദേശം, സ്വദേശം
- fatherland in Kannada
- ಪಿತೃಭೂಮಿ, ಪಿತೃಭೂಮಿಯ
- fatherland in Punjabi
- ਪਿਤਰੀ ਭੂਮੀ
- fatherland in Gujarati
- પિતૃદેશ pitŕdeś
- fatherland in Odia
- ପିତୃଭୂମି, ପିତୃଭୂମିର
- fatherland in Sanskrit
- पितृभू pitṛbhū
- fatherland in Nepali
- पितृभूमि, पितृभूमिका, पितृ भूमि
- fatherland in Arabic
- وطن waṭan
- fatherland in Persian
- میهن mihan
Synonyms of fatherland
Forms of fatherland
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Origin of fatherland
From father + land. Compare Dutch vaderland (“fatherland”), German Vaterland (“fatherland”), Danish fædreland (“fatherland”), Icelandic föðurland (“fatherland”). Does not continue Middle English fæderland, from Old English fæderland. First attested in the 1620s.
Words formed from fatherland
Questions about fatherland
- What does fatherland mean?
- Fatherland means the country of one's ancestors.
- What is fatherland in Hindi?
- Fatherland in Hindi is जन्मभूमि (janmabhūmi), वतन (vatan), स्वदेश (svadeś). See Fatherland meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is fatherland?
- Fatherland is a noun.
- What is the plural of fatherland?
- The plural of fatherland is fatherlands.
Words near fatherland in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fatherland (page history and authors); fatherland (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fatherland (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fatherland (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); fatherland (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fatherland (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); પિતૃદેશ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); fatherland (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); पितृभू (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); fatherland (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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