Meaning

2 senses
  1. The country of one's ancestors.

    Vaterland

    оте́чествоotéčestvo, ро́динаródina

    ба́тьківщи́наbátʹkivščýna

    the country where you were born

  2. The country of one's birth, origin.

Examples

27 sentences
  1. Wherever I am doing well, that is my fatherland.

    Там де добре, там і батьківщина.

    deWo es mir gutgeht, dort ist mein Vaterland.

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  2. When I can be of no service to the fatherland, I will at least try my best to not do any harm.

    Коли не зможу нічим любій вітчизні прислужитись, в усякому разі з усієї сили намагатимуся ніколи ні в чому не шкодити.

    ruКогда не смогу ничем дорогой отчизне прислужиться, во всяком случае из всей силы буду стараться никогда ни в чем не вредить.

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  3. The whole world is my fatherland.

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  4. France has become his second fatherland.

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  5. He has neither God nor fatherland.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
country of one's ancestry:
Русский
By meaning 1
country of one's ancestry:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
country of one's ancestry:

Origin

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

From father + land. Compare Dutch vaderland (“fatherland”), German Vaterland (“fatherland”), Danish fædreland (“fatherland”), Icelandic föðurland (“fatherland”). Does not continue Middle English fæderland, from Old English fæderland. First attested in the 1620s.

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Forms

plural: fatherlands
Singularfatherland
Pluralfatherlands

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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