单词 | homeland |
释义 | homelandn. 1. A person's home country or native land; the land of one's ancestors. Also in extended use: a place regarded as the home of something.In early use chiefly attributive with the sense ‘domestic, not foreign’.In quot. a1627: heaven; cf. home n.1 3. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [noun] > homeland or native land kithc888 etheleOE erdOE homeOE motherOE fatherlandc1275 countrya1300 soila1400 countrywarda1425 motherland1565 mother country1567 patrie1581 native1604 homelanda1627 home country1707 patria1707 old country1751 the (old) sod1812 home birth1846 Vaterland1852 old sod1863 motherland1895 Bongo Bongo1911 sireland1922 a1627 A. Craig Pilgrime & Heremite (1631) sig. D4 That loving Lord, shall take vs by the Hand, And with Him leads vs, to the Home Land. 1638 L. Roberts Merchants Mappe of Commerce cclxxiii. 261 Neither need I nominate the homeland commerce of this kingdome to Scotland and Ireland. 1670 R. Blome Treat. Traffick 53 in Geogr. Descr. World Another sort of Merchants, which may be termed Homeland-Traders..who drive a trade to Scotland and Ireland. 1755 ‘Philo Senensis’ Importance Shannon Navigation (ed. 2) 14 Limerick is chiefly supplied with Wheat and Malt from abroad, on Account of the excessive Price of home-land Carriage. ?1775 2 Excellent New Songs i. 4 On snuff and puff, we'll beat a ruff, their Tea and dear Tobacco, On homeland cheer, our teeth we'll steer and not regard their act. 1833 I. Taylor Fanaticism v. 139 A homeland densely peopled. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People i. §1. 4 The gods whom our English fathers worshipped in their Sleswick home-land. 1876 H. H. Howarth Hist. Mongols I. iii. 100 Hia, with Thibet, were the especial homelands of Northern Buddhism. 1887 Home Missionary (N.Y.) Feb. 385 [Nebraska] was the native homeland of the buffalo. 1906 Ann. Iowa Apr. 392 The author..brought into his life-work the sturdy elements which..have made America the homeland of Liberty. 1948 S. E. Morison Hist. U.S. Naval Operations World War II III. xxi. 396 Even the most thought-controlled and victory-drunk Japanese could see that his homeland was not unassailable by air. 1968 G. Jones Hist. Vikings iii. i. 145 The political and dynastic history of the Scandinavian homelands. 2007 H. Jin Free Life vi. 30 He had made up his mind that he'd write many books after he finished his Ph.D. and returned to his homeland to teach. 2. With the. Britain, as opposed to (former) British colonies and territories. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > [noun] > Britain AlbionOE Britannia1605 Brittanies1610 old country1751 home1755 homeland1862 Old Dart1863 old home1869 Pommyland1916 cool Britannia1967 mainland1980 1862 All Year Round 22 Nov. 249/2 The walls are decorated with such simple keepsakes and souvenirs of the home-land as I carry about with me. c1892 C. Bingham (title of song) The dear home-land. 1905 Daily Chron. 22 June 6/6 We are here to-night..a body of Canadian business men, chiefly in order that we may learn to know the people of the homeland. 1922 Daily Mail 4 Nov. 14 (advt.) The Homeland is facing a political crisis which Britons abroad are watching with the keenest anxiety. 1966 B. C. Shafer et al. 1865 to Present (1967) xvii. 385 During the 18th century, the settlers' dependence on the homeland gradually lessened. 2005 J. E. McWilliams Revol. in Eating vi. 202 New Englanders aimed for a culinary replication of the homeland. 3. South African. During the mid 20th cent., under the policy of apartheid (or ‘separate development’): any of ten partially self-governing areas in South Africa, each designated for a particular indigenous African people. Cf. Bantustan n. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > reservation for indigenous people reserve1667 Indian reserve1752 reservation1792 Indian reservation1804 station1825 location1833 native reserve1842 native location1866 res1880 native location1928 township1934 homeland1959 1959 Memorandum: Promotion of Bantu Self Govt. Bill 8 The creation of homogeneous administrative areas for the Bantu by uniting the members of each Bantu national group in one national unit, concentrated in one coherent homeland where possible. 1963 Ann. Reg. 1962 314 A series of ‘independent’ Bantu ‘homelands’, where each ethnic group would have a vote. 1970 Nature 24 Oct. 311/2 One of the regions of South Africa now set aside as a ‘homeland’ for the native population. 1971 Time 13 Dec. 23 One of the 29 scattered patches of land that make up the Zulu Bantustan, a separate homeland set up by the apartheid government in Pretoria. 2002 R. Mesthrie Lang. in S. Afr. 317 The groups in the north-eastern Transvaal (formerly the Gazankulu homeland, now in Mpumalanga and Northern Provinces). Compounds homeland security n. national security, now esp. with regard to the threat of terrorism within a country's borders.The term gained new prominence with the creation in the United States of the Office of Homeland Security (in 2001) and the Department of Homeland Security (in 2002) in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. ΚΠ 1935 H. Saito Japan's Policies & Purposes 121 It would not be essential to any Western nation's proper homeland security to go to war. 2001 Time 8 Oct. 33/1 President Bush has proposed an Office of Homeland Security..with powers matching those of the National Security Council. 2002 Nation (N.Y.) 29 Apr. 6/2 We should not ask Israelis to stop their war against terrorists until they have achieved greater homeland security. 2006 Times (Nexis) 13 Oct. 8 The Conservative spokesman on homeland security..has criticised the time it has taken the Ministry of Defence to carry out this investigation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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