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NATIVE LAND

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Dictionary entry overview: What does native land mean?

• NATIVE LAND (noun)
The noun NATIVE LAND has 1 sense:

1. the country where you were born

Familiarity information: NATIVE LAND used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• NATIVE LAND (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The country where you were born

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

country of origin; fatherland; homeland; mother country; motherland; native land

Hypernyms ("native land" is a kind of...):

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "native land"):

old country (the country of origin of an immigrant)

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