Synonyms:
fatherland, homeland, motherland, mother_country, country_of_origin, native_land
Meaning: the country where you were born
Usage examples
I have had everything removed, and it only remains for me to weep over the fate of my fatherland.
The never-to-be-forgotten music of the Fatherland's-speech has on my infant ear from the first-beginning impressed itself.'
On the other hand, many Americans of German descent, in memory of their ties with the Fatherland, openly sympathized with the Central Powers; and many Americans of Irish descent, recalling their long and bitter struggle for home rule in Ireland, would have regarded British defeat as a merited redress of ancient grievances.