| 单词 | home country |
| 释义 | > as lemmashome country home country n. (a) one's native land; the land of one's ancestors (cf. mother country n. 1); (b) a country in relation to its colonies or dependencies (cf. mother country n. 2). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [noun] > homeland or native land kithc888 etheleOE erdOE homeOE motherOE fatherlandc1275 countrya1300 soila1400 countrywarda1425 motherland1565 mother country1567 patrie1581 native1604 homelanda1627 home country1707 patria1707 old country1751 the (old) sod1812 home birth1846 Vaterland1852 old sod1863 motherland1895 Bongo Bongo1911 sireland1922 society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > aggregate of sovereign states under one rule > mother country in relation to colonies metropolisa1568 home country1707 mother country1732 metropole1803 motherland1835 1707 Rev. State Brit. Nation 14 June 214/1 This foreign Country, call'd Scotland, by the intervening Accident of the Union, becomes the same Home-Country with England. 1761 London Chron. 11 Aug. 147/2 The places taken from us as of small trade or produce,..useless to their nations, and greatly chargeable to keepe, draining the home Countries both of men and money. 1844 Simmonds's Colonial Mag. 3 464 Provisions here are much cheaper than in the home country. 1860 A. Reid Way of World III. xi. 327 For the last time, I sought the shores of my home country. 1948 G. W. Southgate Eng. Econ. Hist. (new ed.) viii. 72 The plantations were not regarded as daughter-nations..but as outposts of the home country, to which, from an economic standpoint, they were subordinate. 1953 New Biol. 15 54 Abmigration occurs when a bird..accompanies foreigners which have also wintered here to their home countries in the Spring. 2002 T. Nairn Pariah iii. 36 Little England..came to denote territorial (and industrial) England, the ‘home country’ minus its colonies, and without its overseas role as a global gendarme. 2008 S. Armitage Gig (2009) 165 Of all the crimes my home country can rightly be accused of, I didn't expect to have to add altitude-ism to the list. < as lemmas |
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