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Definition: Motherland |
MotherlandNoun1. The country where you were born. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "motherland" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references) |
Synonyms: MotherlandSynonyms: country of origin (n), fatherland (n), homeland (n), mother country (n), native land (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Motherland is otherwise a synonym for Fatherland, though perhaps carrying different psychological associations.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Motherland."
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Movie/TV Titles | The Call of the Motherland (1915) My Motherland Vietnam (1989) | |
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 | The motherland is calling you. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Following the paths of our fathers in the ranks of the Polish army for motherland and freedom / W. T. Benda. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Heighten our vigilance, defend the motherland! Be ready at all times to destroy the enemy intruders!. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Economic History | Turkey | Prior to the deadline for participation in the 1983 national elections, three political parties--the Nationalist Democracy Party, the Motherland Party and the Populist Party--were authorized. (references) |
Turkey | Political parties: Democratic Left Party (DSP), Nationalist Action Party (MHP), Motherland Party (ANAP), Virtue (Fazilet) Party, True Path Party (DYP), Republican People's Party (CHP), and several smaller parties. (references) | |
Turkey | In the 1983 elections, the Motherland Party (ANAP -- founded by Turgut Ozal, Deputy Prime Minister 1980-82 and architect of Turkey's successful economic austerity program under the military government) won an absolute majority in the then 400-member Grand National Assembly. (references) | |
Political Economy | Turkey | After the 1999 parliamentary elections, Bulent Ecevit's Democratic Left Party (DSP), the Nationalist Action Party (MHP) led by Devlet Bahceli, and former Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz's Motherland Party (ANAP) formed a Government with Ecevit as Prime Minister. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Motherland" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.47% of the time. "Motherland" is used about 38 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) | 89.47% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 10.53% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 38 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "motherland": long for one's motherland. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
motherland | 21 |
chapman fern motherland | 15 |
motherland nigeria | 8 |
merchant motherland natalie | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "motherland"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mëmëdhe (homeland, mother country, native country, old country), vatan (fatherland), atdhe (country, fatherland, homeland, mother country, native land). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الوطن الأم, الوطن. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | родина (country, habitat, mother country, native country, native land, nurse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 祖國 (homeland). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vlast (country, home, homeland, mother country, native land). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | میهن (Home), مادرمیهن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | patrie-mère, patrie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mutterland (mother country). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πατρίδα (country, fatherland, homeland). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מול"ת (birthplace, homeland, kindred, native land), ארץ מול"ת (homeland, old country). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szülõföld (homeland, mother country, native country, native land), haza (country, home, homeland, kith, mother country, native land), anyaország (metropolitan country, mother country, old country, parent state). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tanah air (homeland). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | madrepatria (mother country), patria (birthplace, country, fatherland, home, homeland, native country), paese natio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | マグマ溜り (Macedonia, machine, machine gun, machine language, machine-room, machine-vision, magma reservoir, marshmallow, Maserati, Massachusetts, McGraw Hill, mother complex, Mother Goose, mother tape, mothering, Mother's Day, Oedipus complex, sexual attraction to one's mother). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | マザーランド . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | otherlandmay terra-mãe, país natal (mother country). (various references) patrie (birthplace, country, fatherland, home, homeland, mother country, soil). (various references) родина (birth-place, country, habitat, home, homeland, native land, the old country). (various references) otadžbina (fatherland, mother country). (various references) madre patria, patria (cradle, fatherland, home, homeland, mother country, native, native country, native land, place of birth). (various references) fosterland (mother country, native country, native land, native-country). (various references) บ้านเกิ"เมืองนอน (fatherland), บ้านเกิ" (homeland, mother country). (various references) memleket (bourn, Bourne, country, domain, homeland, land, mother country, native shore), vatan (Blighty, habitat, home, homeland, land, native land, native shore, old country, soil). (various references) вітчизна (homeland), батьківщина (country, fatherland, habitat, home, homeland, native, native land). (various references) tổ quốc (country, fatherland, home, homeland, mother country), quê hương (country, homeland). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | mater, matre, matrem, matres, matri, matribus, matrique, matris, matrum, patria. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "motherland": motherlands. (additional references) | |
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"Motherland" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Metharam, Montherlant, Mulheran, Muthaland. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "motherland" (pronounced mu"therla'nd) |
| 6 | -th er l a' n d | Fatherland. |
| 5 | -er l a' n d | hinterland, overland, Timberland, Wonderland. |
| 4 | -l a' n d | Badland, cropland, dreamland, fairyland, Fantasyland, farmland, flatland, grassland, heartland, homeland, inland, lowland, mainland, marshland, Midland, moorland, Northland, outland, parkland, Southland, sunland, wasteland, wetland, woodland. |
| 3 | -a' n d | ampersand, armband, backhand, bandstand, beforehand, broadband, contraband, farmhand, firebrand, forehand, freehand, grandstand, handstand, headband, longhand, newsstand, nightstand, quicksand, reprimand, seastrand, secondhand, shorthand, spaceband, stagehand, undermanned. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-l-m-n-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: homeland, hotelman, methadon, methanol, thraldom. | |
-3 letters: almoner, althorn, anethol, another, armhole, delator, dormant, earldom, enthral, ethanol, handler, herdman, ladrone, leotard, loathed, loather, lomenta, madrone, mandrel, manhole, mantled, menorah, menthol, mordant, mordent, omental, rathole, taloned, telamon, teraohm, thermal, thorned, throned, tonearm, troland. | |
-4 letters: almner, almond, anthem, anther, antler, ardent, armlet, atoned, atoner, daemon, daleth. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-l-m-n-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: motherlands. | |
+3 letters: grandmotherly. | |
+5 letters: thermodynamical. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 74 68 65 72 6C 61 6E 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- - .... . .-. .-.. .- -. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o t h e r l a n d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 0074 0068 0065 0072 006C 0061 006E 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47818674718478678070 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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