mother countryn.

Brit.

/ˈmʌðə ˌkʌntri/, U.S.

/ˈməðər ˌkəntri/

Forms: see mother n.¹ and country n. and adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mother n.¹, country n. and adj.

Etymology: < mother n.¹ + country n. and adj. Compare slightly earlier motherland n.In quot. 1567 at sense 1 translating classical Latin antīqua māter (compare old country n. and adj.).

1. The country of one's birth; one's native land; = motherland n. 1. Also: the country of one's ancestors or of one's ethnic group.

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

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis xiii. f. 168 They went too Phebus Oracle, which willed them too go Untoo theyr moother countrey [L. antiquam matrem] and the coastes theyr stocke came fro.

1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres i. lxxxix. sig. E4 Thy mother countrey whence thy selfe didst spring.

1639 P. Massinger Unnaturall Combat i. i. sig. C2 To joyne with them to lift a wicked arme Against my mother Countrey, this Marsellis.

1651 E. Prestwich tr. Seneca Hippolitus ii. ii. 23 Love, the perverse oft tameth, and removes All hatred this thy Mother Country [L. regna materna] proves.

a1713 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks (1715) III. 143 (note) Absolute Power annuls the Publick: And where there is no Publick, or Constitution, there is in reality no Mother-Country, or Nation.

1793 W. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Iphigenia in Tauris ii. 47 Thy voice calls up before the captive's view The azure mountains of his mother-country.

1824 Countess Granville Let. 13 Dec. (1894) I. 323 She seems a very charming person..with l'air noble and not a shade of her mother-country.

1890 F. J. Furnivall in Caxton's Eneydos Collation 192/1 To habandoune & leue the swete countrey, dabandonner la doulce terre mere (Yet Caxton left out the Mother country!).

1902 Daily Chron. 26 June 4/3 His pueblo and his province are infinitely more to a Spaniard than his mother country.

1991 Managem. Accounting Sept. 10/3 Real Euro-managers..speak several languages; they are open-minded and sensitive to foreign cultures and at least part of their career is spent outside the mother country.

2. A country in relation to its colonies or dependencies; the country from which the founders of a colony came.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > aggregate of sovereign states under one rule > mother country in relation to colonies

metropolisa1568

home country1707

mother country1732

metropole1803

motherland1835

1732 G. Berkeley Serm. to Soc. Propagation Gospel in Wks. (1871) III. 245 No fashions are so much followed by our Colonies as those of the mother-country.

1766 W. Nelson Let. 25 July in John Norton & Sons (1968) 14 It hath taken away the hateful cause of Disgust & ill blood between the Mother Country & the Colonies.

1832 J. Henderson Observ. Colonies New S. Wales & Van Dieman's Land 27 Bathurst is to Sydney, as Sydney is to the Mother Country.

1861 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 2) App. i. 405 If Canada were separated from the mother country.

1899 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Feb. 2/2 South Africa should refrain from looking to the mother-country for help.

1923 R. T. Brown Sidelights on European Tour 7 The writer intended to visit Africa on the trip, but did not... However, in the near future I hope to visit the mother country.

1948 W. C. Williams Paterson ii. §ii The new world had been looked on as a producer of precious metals, pelts and raw materials to be turned over to the mother country for manufactured articles which the colonists had no choice but to buy at advanced prices.

1953 Canberra Times 15 Feb. b4/1 Cut off from the ‘Mother Country’ by thousands of miles, successive governments have sought security in ‘an alien sea’.

1972 Kingston (Ont.) Whig-Standard 1 Nov. 29/2 The boys had gone with the volunteer Canadian contingent to the aid of the ‘mother country’, hard pressed by Boer forces.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mother country
释义	mother countryn. Brit. /ˈmʌðə ˌkʌntri/, U.S. /ˈməðər ˌkəntri/ Forms: see mother n.¹ and country n. and adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mother n.¹, country n. and adj. Etymology: < mother n.¹ + country n. and adj. Compare slightly earlier motherland n.In quot. 1567 at sense 1 translating classical Latin antīqua māter (compare old country n. and adj.). 1. The country of one's birth; one's native land; = motherland n. 1. Also: the country of one's ancestors or of one's ethnic group. 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 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis xiii. f. 168 They went too Phebus Oracle, which willed them too go Untoo theyr moother countrey [L. antiquam matrem] and the coastes theyr stocke came fro. 1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres i. lxxxix. sig. E4 Thy mother countrey whence thy selfe didst spring. 1639 P. Massinger Unnaturall Combat i. i. sig. C2 To joyne with them to lift a wicked arme Against my mother Countrey, this Marsellis. 1651 E. Prestwich tr. Seneca Hippolitus ii. ii. 23 Love, the perverse oft tameth, and removes All hatred this thy Mother Country [L. regna materna] proves. a1713 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks (1715) III. 143 (note) Absolute Power annuls the Publick: And where there is no Publick, or Constitution, there is in reality no Mother-Country, or Nation. 1793 W. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Iphigenia in Tauris ii. 47 Thy voice calls up before the captive's view The azure mountains of his mother-country. 1824 Countess Granville Let. 13 Dec. (1894) I. 323 She seems a very charming person..with l'air noble and not a shade of her mother-country. 1890 F. J. Furnivall in Caxton's Eneydos Collation 192/1 To habandoune & leue the swete countrey, dabandonner la doulce terre mere (Yet Caxton left out the Mother country!). 1902 Daily Chron. 26 June 4/3 His pueblo and his province are infinitely more to a Spaniard than his mother country. 1991 Managem. Accounting Sept. 10/3 Real Euro-managers..speak several languages; they are open-minded and sensitive to foreign cultures and at least part of their career is spent outside the mother country. 2. A country in relation to its colonies or dependencies; the country from which the founders of a colony came. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > aggregate of sovereign states under one rule > mother country in relation to colonies metropolisa1568 home country1707 mother country1732 metropole1803 motherland1835 1732 G. Berkeley Serm. to Soc. Propagation Gospel in Wks. (1871) III. 245 No fashions are so much followed by our Colonies as those of the mother-country. 1766 W. Nelson Let. 25 July in John Norton & Sons (1968) 14 It hath taken away the hateful cause of Disgust & ill blood between the Mother Country & the Colonies. 1832 J. Henderson Observ. Colonies New S. Wales & Van Dieman's Land 27 Bathurst is to Sydney, as Sydney is to the Mother Country. 1861 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 2) App. i. 405 If Canada were separated from the mother country. 1899 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Feb. 2/2 South Africa should refrain from looking to the mother-country for help. 1923 R. T. Brown Sidelights on European Tour 7 The writer intended to visit Africa on the trip, but did not... However, in the near future I hope to visit the mother country. 1948 W. C. Williams Paterson ii. §ii The new world had been looked on as a producer of precious metals, pelts and raw materials to be turned over to the mother country for manufactured articles which the colonists had no choice but to buy at advanced prices. 1953 Canberra Times 15 Feb. b4/1 Cut off from the ‘Mother Country’ by thousands of miles, successive governments have sought security in ‘an alien sea’. 1972 Kingston (Ont.) Whig-Standard 1 Nov. 29/2 The boys had gone with the volunteer Canadian contingent to the aid of the ‘mother country’, hard pressed by Boer forces. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1567
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