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parentlands

parentlands is the plural of parentland.

Meaning of parentland

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

Questions about parentlands

What is parentlands the plural of?
Parentlands is the plural of parentland.

Words near parentlands in the dictionary

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

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