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Definition: Fatherland |
FatherlandNoun1. The country where you were born. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fatherland" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
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Groups that refer to their homeland as a "fatherland" (or rather, cognates of this English word in their languages), or, arguably, associate it primarily with paternal concepts include:
"Fatherland" is also the title of a thriller novel by the English writer and journalist, Robert Harris, which doubles as a work of virtual history and postulates a world in which Nazi Germany was triumphant as a consequence of World War II. A TV movie of the book was made in 1994 by HBO, and starred Rutger Hauer and Miranda Richardson.
See also: national anthem
External Links and References
Vaterland, etc.
Nationalism and Ethnicity - A Theoretical Overview
The problem of German identity...
Nation, State, and Economy: The Nationality Principle in Politics: Liberal or Pacifistic Nationalism, Ludwig von Mises
National anthems ("Allons enfants de la Patrie", "Blühe, deutsches Vaterland")
Origins of the German State, Robert Selig, German Life
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Synonyms: FatherlandSynonyms: country of origin (n), homeland (n), mother country (n), motherland (n), native land (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Home, fatherland; country; homestead, homestall; fireside; hearth, hearth stone; chimney corner, inglenook, ingle side; harem, seraglio, zenana; household gods, lares et penates, roof, household, housing, dulce domum, paternal domicile; native soil, native land. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fatherland |
| Etymologies containing "fatherland": Patrial. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The Fatherland needs people of steel (Mädchen in Uniform; writing credit: Friedrich Dammann; Christa Winsloe) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Fatherland (1973) Fatherland (1994) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | In the interest of the defense of the Soviet fatherland /. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
E. M. Cioran | One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland --and no other. |
Gustave Flaubert | A thinker (and what is an artist if not a triple thinker?) should have neither religion nor fatherland nor even any social convictions. |
Virgil | O fatherland, O Ilium home of the gods, O Troy walls famed in battle! |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Vietnam | All labor unions must be members of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor, an organization under the Communist Party's Fatherland Front. (references) |
Spain | The Government of Spain is involved in a long-running campaign against Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA), a terrorist organization founded in 1959 and dedicated to promoting Basque independence. (references) | |
Bolivia | Major political parties: Nationalist Democratic Action (ADN), Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR), Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (MNR), Conscience of the Fatherland (CONDEPA), Free Bolivia Movement (MBL), Civic Solidarity Union (UCS). (references) | |
Human Rights | Vietnam | The dossier includes a person's curriculum vitae, his or her past criminal record, as well as any comments from the people's committee, the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF, the mass front organization controlled by the Communist Party), and the district police. (references) |
Political Economy | Ukraine | The largest party in this bloc is the Fatherland Party. (references) |
Vietnam | All non-governmental Vietnamese organizations must belong to the CPV-controlled Fatherland Front. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | I speak to you as a friend, as one who knows of your deep attachment to your fatherland, as one who shares your aspirations for liberty and justice for all. |
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| "Fatherland" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 74.07% of the time. "Fatherland" is used about 54 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 74.07% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Noun (proper) | 25.93% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Total | 100.00% | 54 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "fatherland": the fatherland. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fatherland | 13 |
basque fatherland liberty | 5 |
ancient fatherland rite | 4 |
fatherland harris robert | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fatherland"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vatan (motherland), atdhe (country, homeland, mother country, motherland, native land). (various references) | |
Arabic | وطن أسلاف المرء. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | татковина, отечество (homeland, native land). (various references) | |
Chinese | 祖国. (various references) | |
Czech | otèina (home). (various references) | |
Danish | fædreland. (various references) | |
Dutch | vaderland. (various references) | |
Esperanto | patrujo. (various references) | |
French | patrie. (various references) | |
Frisian | heitelân. (various references) | |
German | vaterland (homeland, mother country, motherland, native country, native land). (various references) | |
Greek | πατρίδα (country, homeland, motherland). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ארץ אבות. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szülõhaza. (various references) | |
Irish | athartha. (various references) | |
Italian | patria (birthplace, country, home, homeland, motherland, native country). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 祖国 (native country). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そ"く (native country). (various references) | |
Korean | 조국. (various references) | |
Manx | cheer dooie. (various references) | |
Papiamen | patria. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atherlandfay.(various references) | |
Polish | ojczyzna. (various references) | |
Portuguese | pátria (country, native country). (various references) | |
Romanian | patrie (birthplace, country, home, homeland, mother country, motherland, soil), ţarã natalã (native land). (various references) | |
Russian | отечество (homeland, native land, the old country). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | otadžbina (mother country, motherland), domovina (country, native country, native land). (various references) | |
Spanish | patria (cradle, home, homeland, mother country, motherland, native, native country, native land, place of birth). (various references) | |
Swedish | fädernesland (native country). (various references) | |
Thai | บ้านเกิ"เมืองนอน (motherland). (various references) | |
Turkish | anavatan (mother country). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | батьківщина (country, habitat, home, homeland, motherland, native, native land). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tổ quốc (country, home, homeland, mother country, motherland), đất nước. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | patria. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fatherland": fatherlands. (additional references) | |
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"Fatherland" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Achterland, Fathulla. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fatherland" (pronounced fÄ"therla'nd) |
| 6 | -th er l a' n d | motherland. |
| 5 | -er l a' n d | hinterland, overland, Timberland, Wonderland. |
| 4 | -l a' n d | Badland, cropland, lowland, dreamland, fairyland, Fantasyland, farmland, flatland, grassland, heartland, homeland, inland, mainland, marshland, Midland, moorland, Northland, outland, parkland, Southland, sunland, wasteland, wetland, woodland. |
| 3 | -a' n d | ampersand, armband, backhand, bandstand, beforehand, broadband, contraband, longhand, farmhand, firebrand, forehand, freehand, grandstand, handstand, headband, newsstand, nightstand, quicksand, reprimand, seastrand, secondhand, shorthand, spaceband, stagehand, undermanned. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-f-h-l-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: heartland. | |
-2 letters: antheral, flathead. | |
-3 letters: adrenal, enthral, fathead, handler, lanated, laterad, trehala. | |
-4 letters: adnate, afeard, alated, althea, anther, antler, antral, ardent, dafter, daleth, darnel, dartle, dearth, dental, dharna, falter, fardel, father, flared, fraena, hafted, hafter, halted, halter, handle, hanted, hantle, harden, hartal, hatred, herald, lanate, lander, lathed, lather, learnt, rafted, ranted, rental, tarnal, thaler. | |
-5 letters: aahed. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-f-h-l-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: fatherlands. | |
+3 letters: grandfatherly. | |
+4 letters: faintheartedly. | |
+5 letters: halfheartedness. | |
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