Vaterlandn.
/ˈfɑːtəlant/ A German's fatherland.
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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
1852 C. J. Lever Daltons I. xxii. 184 Hansel was the kind, quaint emblem of his own dreamy ‘Vaterland’.
1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby I. ii. 111 The buttercups and daisies of the Vaterland!
1950 New Yorker 26 Aug. 70/2 Germans whose every act and thought was directed..toward the enhancement of the Vaterland.
1977 N. Freeling Gadget iv. 151 A stone slab had carved upon it the..names of the village boys dead for the Vaterland in '14–'18.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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