fatherland
The country of one's ancestorsThe country of one's ancestors.
» Wherever I am doing well, that is my fatherland.
Wo es mir gutgeht, dort ist mein Vaterland.
Там де добре, там і батьківщина.
Meaning
2 sensesThe country of one's ancestors.
Vaterland
оте́чествоotéčestvo, ро́динаródina
ба́тьківщи́наbátʹkivščýna
the country where you were born
The country of one's birth, origin.
Examples
27 sentencesWherever I am doing well, that is my fatherland.
Там де добре, там і батьківщина.
deWo es mir gutgeht, dort ist mein Vaterland.
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.
The whole world is my fatherland.
France has become his second fatherland.
He has neither God nor fatherland.
Translations
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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| Singular | fatherland |
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Synonyms
6 synonyms- the country where you were born:homelandmotherlandmother countrycountry of originnative land