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fatherland|ˈfɑːðəlænd|
[f. father n. + land.]
1. The land of one's birth, one's country. † in fatherland, at home (opp. to abroad). Cf. mother-country.
1623J. Wodroephe Marrow Fr. Tongue 270, I thanke my lucke that hath caused me to find here my Countryman, and one of my Fatherland. 1635T. Odell (title), A brief and short Treatise called the Christian's Fatherland. 1683F. Ellis Let. in Hedges' Diary (1887) 120, I hope..to meet with much better [Justice] in Father-Land for y⊇ inexpressable damage done me. 1799W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. VII. 399 Through thee alone the father-land is dear. 1840Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) V. 130 Returning to their fatherland in peace. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets v. 138 Stesichorus acknowledged an Ionian colony for his fatherland.
b. Used to translate the Dutch or German vaderland, vaterland. the Fatherland: now usually = Germany.
1672Temple Ess. Govt. Wks. 1731 I. 100 The Dutch..instead of our Country, say our Father-land. 1791–1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1858) III. 31 The glorious history of its independence under the title of Vaderlandsche Historie—the history of Father-land. 1839W. Chambers Tour Holland 9/1 The attachment which the Dutch show to their Vaderland, or Fatherland, as they commonly term it. 1864Macm. Mag. Oct. 433 Its [Tübingen's] famous University..more identified with the spiritual..development of Germany than any other single institution in the Father⁓land. 1874Morley Compromise (1886) 6 A German has his dream of a great fatherland.
2. The land of one's fathers; mother-country.
1822W. Irving Braceb. Hall I. 13 The ancient and genuine characteristics of my father land. 1831Blackw. Mag. Sept. 528/2 They [the Americans] look to a dreadful breaking-up of those old establishments, under the shelter of which have grown..the liberties of their ‘father-land’ [Great Britain].
Hence ˈfatherlandish a. [+ -ish], of, or pertaining to, one's fatherland.
1832tr. Tour Germ. Prince III. x. 279 Two genuine Nürnberg housewives, dressed in their fatherlandish caps. Ibid. IV. ii. 117 The immoveable and unchangeable fatherlandish friend,—the majestic Mont Blanc. |