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MOTHER COUNTRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The country where you were born
Synonyms:
country of origin; fatherland; homeland; mother country; motherland; native land
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("mother country" is a kind of...):
country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mother country"):
old country (the country of origin of an immigrant)