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fatherland

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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1

noun

Meaning 1

The country of one's ancestors.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The country of one's birth, origin.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

the country where you were born

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: homeland, motherland, mother country, country of origin, native land

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: country, state, land

Narrower terms: old country

History

Etymology

From father + land. Compare Dutch vaderland (“fatherland”), German Vaterland (“fatherland”), Danish fædreland (“fatherland”), Icelandic föðurland (“fatherland”).

Across languages

Translations

102 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: atdhe — country of one's ancestry
  • Arabic: وطن (waṭan) — country of one's ancestry
  • Armenian: հայրենիք (hayrenikʻ) — country of one's ancestry
  • Aromanian: pãtridã — country of one's ancestry
  • Asturian: patria — country of one's ancestry
  • Avar: ватӏан (watʼan) — country of one's ancestry
  • Azerbaijani: ana yurdu — country of one's ancestry
  • Azerbaijani: vətən — country of one's ancestry
  • Basque: aberri — country of one's ancestry
  • Belarusian: радзі́ма (radzíma) — country of one's ancestry
  • Belarusian: спа́дчына (spádčyna) — country of one's ancestry
  • Bengali: ওয়াতন (ōẇaton) — country of one's ancestry
  • Bulgarian: та́тковина (tátkovina) — country of one's ancestry
  • Catalan: pàtria — country of one's ancestry
  • Chinese Mandarin: 祖國 /祖国 (zǔguó) — country of one's ancestry
  • Czech: otčina — country of one's ancestry
  • Czech: vlast — country of one's ancestry
  • Czech: domovina — country of one's ancestry
  • Danish: fædreland — country of one's ancestry
  • Dutch: vaderland — country of one's ancestry
  • Esperanto: patrujo — country of one's ancestry
  • Estonian: isamaa — country of one's ancestry
  • Faroese: ættarland — country of one's ancestry
  • Faroese: fosturland — country of one's ancestry
  • Faroese: føðiland — country of one's ancestry
  • Faroese: heimland — country of one's ancestry
  • Faroese: móðurland — country of one's ancestry
  • Finnish: isänmaa — country of one's ancestry
  • French: patrie — country of one's ancestry
  • West-Frisian: heitelân — country of one's ancestry
  • Galician: patria — country of one's ancestry
  • Georgian: სამშობლო (samšoblo) — country of one's ancestry
  • Georgian: მამული (mamuli) — country of one's ancestry
  • German: Vaterland — country of one's ancestry
  • German: Vaterland — country of one's ancestry
  • Greek: πατρίδα (patrída) — country of one's ancestry
  • Ancient Greek: πατρίς (patrís) — country of one's ancestry
  • Ancient Greek: πάτρᾱ (pátrā) — country of one's ancestry
  • Hindi: जन्मभूमि (janmabhūmi) — country of one's ancestry
  • Hindi: वतन (vatan) — country of one's ancestry
  • Hindi: स्वदेश (svadeś) — country of one's ancestry
  • Hungarian: anyaföld — country of one's ancestry
  • Hungarian: szülőföld — country of one's ancestry
  • Icelandic: ættjörð — country of one's ancestry
  • Icelandic: ættland — country of one's ancestry
  • Icelandic: föðurland — country of one's ancestry
  • Ido: naskolando — country of one's ancestry
  • Ido: patrio — country of one's ancestry
  • Irish: athartha — country of one's ancestry
  • Irish: tír dhúchais — country of one's ancestry
  • Italian: patria — country of one's ancestry
  • Italian: paese — country of one's ancestry
  • Italian: suolo natio — country of one's ancestry
  • Japanese: 祖国 (sokoku) — country of one's ancestry
  • Kazakh: атамекен (atameken) — country of one's ancestry
  • Kazakh: отан (otan) — country of one's ancestry
  • Central Kurdish: نیشتیمان (nîştîman) — country of one's ancestry
  • Latin: patria — country of one's ancestry
  • Latvian: tēvija — country of one's ancestry
  • Latvian: tēvzeme — country of one's ancestry
  • Latvian: dzimtene — country of one's ancestry
  • Lithuanian: tėvynė — country of one's ancestry
  • Livonian: izāmō — country of one's ancestry
  • Low German: Vaderland — country of one's ancestry
  • Macedonian: татко́вина (tatkóvina) — country of one's ancestry
  • Malagasy: tanindrazana — country of one's ancestry
  • Māori: whenua matua — country of one's ancestry
  • Norwegian: fedreland — country of one's ancestry
  • Occitan: patria — country of one's ancestry
  • Old English: ēþel — country of one's ancestry
  • Old Tupi: tetama — country of one's ancestry
  • Pannonian Rusyn: оцовщина (ocovščina) — country of one's ancestry
  • Pannonian Rusyn: отечество (otečestvo) — country of one's ancestry
  • Persian: میهن (mihan) — country of one's ancestry
  • Plautdietsch: Vodalaunt — country of one's ancestry
  • Polish: ojczyzna — country of one's ancestry
  • Polish: macierz — country of one's ancestry
  • Portuguese: pátria — country of one's ancestry
  • Romanian: patrie — country of one's ancestry
  • Russian: оте́чество (otéčestvo) — country of one's ancestry
  • Russian: ро́дина (ródina) — country of one's ancestry
  • Serbo-Croatian: о̀таџбина — country of one's ancestry
  • Serbo-Croatian: до̀мовина — country of one's ancestry
  • Serbo-Croatian: òtadžbina — country of one's ancestry
  • Serbo-Croatian: dòmovina — country of one's ancestry
  • Silesian: hajmat — country of one's ancestry
  • Slovak: otčina — country of one's ancestry
  • Slovak: domovina — country of one's ancestry
  • Slovak: vlasť — country of one's ancestry
  • Slovene: domovina — country of one's ancestry
  • Spanish: patria — country of one's ancestry
  • Swedish: fosterland — country of one's ancestry
  • Swedish: fädernesland — country of one's ancestry
  • Tabasaran: ватан (vatan) — country of one's ancestry
  • Tibetan: ཕ་ཡུལ (pha yul) — country of one's ancestry
  • Turkish: ana vatan — country of one's ancestry
  • Ottoman Turkish: وطن (vatan) — country of one's ancestry
  • Ukrainian: ба́тьківщи́на (bátʹkivščýna) — country of one's ancestry
  • Welsh: tadwlad — country of one's ancestry
  • Yiddish: פֿאָטערלאַנד (foterland) — country of one's ancestry
  • Zazaki: esasware — country of one's ancestry
  • Zazaki: welat (diq) — country of one's ancestry
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