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parentland

parentland noun: the place where an ethnic group originated; the place from which a population immigrated.

Noun

parentland (plural parentlands)

  1. The place where an ethnic group originated; the place from which a population immigrated.
    • The actual parentland of the Aryans, not the one confused with the paradise, is identified, with reason, with Atropatene (Atropatkan, Azerbaijan) on the south-west coast of the Caspian.1912, C[ornelis] P[etrus] Tiele, translated by G[ushtaspshah] K[aikhushro] Nariman, The Religion of the Iranian Peoples, part I, Bombay: “The Parsi” Publishing Co., page 102
    • Perhaps the culture of New Zealand and Australia is more like that in the parentland than that in any other of the new Europes, because these settlements are isolated from other large masses of Europeans.1942, T[homas] Walter Wallbank, Alastair M[acDonald] Taylor, Civilization—Past and Present, Scott, Foresman and Company, page 250

Examples of parentland in a sentence

  • For the first two years after the war, only American gift and grant had financed the minimum needs of this European civilization, America’s parentland.1978, Theodore Harold White, In Search of History: A Personal Adventure, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 276:
  • Neither the parentland nor the nature of their common boundary is known for these highly contrasting terranes.1994, J. B. Saleeby, R. C. Speed, M. C. Blake, “Tectonic evolution of the central U.S. Cordillera: A synthesis of the C1 and C2...

Forms of parentland

pluralparentlands

Origin of parentland

From parent + land.

Questions about parentland

What does parentland mean?
Parentland means the place where an ethnic group originated; the place from which a population immigrated.
How do you use parentland in a sentence?
For the first two years after the war, only American gift and grant had financed the minimum needs of this European civilization, America’s parentland.
What part of speech is parentland?
Parentland is a noun.
What is the plural of parentland?
The plural of parentland is parentlands.

Words near parentland in the dictionary

  1. parentization
  2. parentize
  3. parentized
  4. parentizes
  5. parentizing
  6. parentland
  7. parentlands
  8. parentless
  9. parentlessness
  10. parentlike
  11. parentlock

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