Definition of "motherland" []

• One's native land. (noun)
• The land of one's ancestors. (noun)
• A country considered as the origin of something. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "That was my first time in Africa, what I call the motherland, the land from which our people came."
• "We have stood deaf, mute and blind as our motherland is raped by land-grabbing raiders and marauders from the Middle East to India."
• "There are sensitive words everywhere - our motherland is so sensitive."