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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
n
1: the country where you were born [syn: fatherland, homeland, motherland, mother country, country of origin, native land]
Merriam Webster's
noun Date: 15871. the country from which the people of a colony or former colony derive their origin2. the country of one's parents or ancestors;also fatherland3. a country that is the origin of something
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Mother Moth"er, a. Received by birth or from ancestors; native, natural; as, mother language; also acting the part, or having the place of a mother; producing others; originating. It is the mother falsehood from which all idolatry is derived. --T. Arnold. Mother cell (Biol.), a cell which, by endogenous divisions, gives rise to other cells (daughter cells); a parent cell. Mother church, the original church; a church from which other churches have sprung; as, the mother church of a diocese. Mother country, the country of one's parents or ancestors; the country from which the people of a colony derive their origin. Mother liquor (Chem.), the impure or complex residual solution which remains after the salts readily or regularly crystallizing have been removed. Mother queen, the mother of a reigning sovereign; a queen mother. Mother tongue. (a) A language from which another language has had its origin. (b) The language of one's native land; native tongue. Mother water. See Mother liquor (above). Mother wit, natural or native wit or intelligence.
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
also Mother Country(mother countries) 1. Someone's mother country is the country in which they or their ancestors were born and to which they still feel emotionally linked, even if they live somewhere else. Dr Kengerli looks to Turkey as his mother country. = motherland N-COUNT: oft with poss 2. If you refer to the mother country of a particular state or country, you are referring to the very powerful country that used to control its affairs. Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, had no colonial conflict with the mother country. N-SING: usu the N
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
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