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# homeland

«homeland» in Mova's school dictionary: **the country where you or your family were born or come from** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a homeland, homelands)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A homeland is the country where you or your family were born or come from. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homeland/#m1)

2) A homeland is the land a people or nation see as their own. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homeland/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Geography and history (refugees far from their homeland), stories about migration, news.

### examples

- She missed her homeland after moving to Canada. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homeland/#x1)
- Many refugees hope to return to their homeland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homeland/#x2)
- Ireland is the homeland of my grandparents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homeland/#x3)
- The poem is about love for one's homeland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homeland/#x4)
- The tribe returned to their homeland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homeland/#x5)
- Our class mapped each family's homeland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homeland/#x6)

### note

Countable. Similar: home country, motherland, fatherland. It carries strong feelings of belonging.

### In the corpora

- [Donkeys bray to call other donkeys, and the sound can carry about 3 kilometres across their desert homeland.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «homeland» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homeland/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.