The country or place that is known or familiar; one's native land, home; hence gen. country, region, quarter. Obsolete.

Formerly: †a person's home country or native land, a homeland (obsolete). Also (in later use only): a person's ancestral land or estate, a patrimony.

The land where one dwells; native land, home; a region, country.

A person's own country or native land. Also: the country of one's ancestors. Frequently without article or possessive (cf. note at sense A. 2b).

A quality, institution, place, etc., that produces, protects, nurtures, or sustains people, ideas, etc. A country, city, etc., in relation to its…

A person’s native country, esp. when referred to in patriotic terms. Also figurative: heaven considered as a Christian's true home. Cf. motherland, n.…

The land of a person's birth, citizenship, residence, etc.; one's homeland. With possessive adjective or genitive.

The place of one's nativity; one's (native) land or country.

With to (also into, till) and with preceding determiner (cf. country, n. adj.compounds 1a), as to his countryward, into what countryward, ‘towards…

The country of one's birth; one's native land.

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.

A person's native country. Also figurative.

A person's birthplace, or place or country of origin; native country. Now rare (regional).

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.

(a) one's native land; the land of one's ancestors (cf. mother country, n. 1); (b) a country in relation to its colonies or dependencies (cf. moth…

A person's native country or homeland. Also in extended use: a spiritual homeland, heaven.

Usually with the. A country of origin or one that has been long established, usually a European country as distinguished from its colonies or…

dialect. the (old) sod, one's native district or country; spec., Ireland.

(a) native origin (now rare); (b) childbirth which takes place at home rather than in a hospital, maternity unit, etc.; an instance of this.

A German's fatherland.

Usually with the. One's country of origin; spec. Ireland. Cf. sod, n.1 4b.

The country of one's ancestors; the homeland of one's ethnic group.

(A name given to) a fictitious or imaginary distant or foreign country, esp. in Africa, typically depreciatively characterized as backward or…

The land of one's birth; one's native country or fatherland.